A Hot Springs man has been identified as the person who died Saturday morning (July 31, 2021) in a fatal crash involving three motorcycles that occurred near Keystone.
Preliminary crash information indicates that a 2019 Indian Roadmaster was westbound on U.S. Highway 16A when the driver failed to negotiate a curve. The motorcycle crossed the center line and collided with an eastbound 2020 Harley Davidson. The Indian Roadmaster then went into the ditch and struck a 2011 Harley Davidson Road King, which was unoccupied and parked on the shoulder of the road.
Keith Schroeder, the 63-year-old driver of the Indian Roadmaster, was thrown from his motorcycle and was pronounced dead at the scene. Ray Hatcher of Independence, MO, who was the 60-year-old driver of the 2020 Harley Davidson, suffered serious non-life threatening injuries and was taken by ambulance to a Rapid City hospital. Neither driver was wearing a helmet. The third driver, 69-year-old James Keenan of Barbeton, OH, was not injured.
South Dakota’s Highway Patrol is investigating the crash. All information released so far is only preliminary.
The Highway Patrol is part of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.
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