UPDATE: Victim of deadly wrong way crash on I-90 identified

July 27, 2023

KADOKA, S.D.–The Department of Public Safety released the names of the individuals involved in a fatal head-on crash on I-90 near Kadoka Saturday night.

A car was driving west in the eastbound lane of I-90 about 18 miles west of Kadoka. It crashed head-on with a van that was driving east.

The driver of the van, 24-year-old Isaac Thompson of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, sustained serious non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to the Philip Hospital.

A passenger also sustained serious non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to a Rapid City Hospital.

The driver of the car, 31-year-old Samuel Vining of Sioux Falls, died from his injuries.