UPDATE: Motorcyclist killed in Brookings County identified

May 25, 2023
Mike Tanner

WHITE, S.D.–A Pipestone, Minnesota man has been identified as the person killed when two motorcycles collided in Brookings County.

It happened Sunday night, eight miles east of White.

One of the motorycles lost control going around a curve, and a motorycle that was trailing it, driven by 29 year-old Blake Olsen, crashed into it.

Both motorcycles ended up in the ditch.

Olsen was taken to a local hospital where he died.

The driver of the lead motorcycle, 32 year-old Taylor Shellum of Trent, South Dakota, had minor injuries.