Douglas County, S.D. – Two people died in a single-vehicle crash Sunday evening six miles southwest of Corsica, SD.
Preliminary crash information indicates 52-year-old Carey Jay Utterback was driving a 2016 Ford Fusion eastbound on SD Highway 44 near mile marker 325 when the vehicle left the roadway and entered the south ditch. The vehicle hit a field approach, vaulted over a fence, then rolled, coming to rest in the field.
Utterback and a passenger, 72-year-old Peggy Lynn Iverson, died at the scene. Two other passengers, 37-year-old Bethanie Lynn Iverson and 36-year-old Benjamin Lyle Iverson both from Sioux Falls, were life-flighted to a Sioux Falls hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating the crash. All information released so far is preliminary.
The Highway Patrol is an agency of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.
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By Scott Colombe
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