Victims of deadly crash near Florence identified

April 13, 2023
Mike Tanner

FLORENCE, S.D.–The South Dakota Highway Patrol has released the names of two people killed in a head-on crash on Highway 20, two miles east of Florence Friday afternoon.

Forty nine year-old Andy York of Watertown and 82 year-old Kathryn Asfeld of Florence died when their vehicles collided.

The Highway Patrol says York was eastbound in a GMC Yukon when he went over the center line and hit the GMC Acadia driven by Asfeld.

Both drivers were wearing seat belts and were dead at the scene.