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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011
CONTACT: Capt. Rob Weinmeister or Lt. Brett Schutt, SD Highway Patrol, 605-626-2286.
Spink County Fatal Crash
What: Vehicle-train fatal crash
When: Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, 5:46 p.m.
Where: SD Highway 20, mile marker322 in Mellette, SD
Driver 1: Rita Louise Vollmer, 67, Mellette, SD, fatal
Vehicle 1: 1997 Lincoln Town Car
Driver 2: Mark Anthony Perman, 46, Aberdeen, SD, uninjured
Passenger 1: Jesse Allen Riggs, 32, Aberdeen, SD, uninjured
Vehicle 2: Burlington Northern-Santa Fe train
MELLETTE, S.D. - One person died Friday afternoon when a vehicle collided with a train on S.D. Highway 20 in Mellette.
Rita Louise Vollmer, 67, of Mellette, was driving a 1997 Lincoln Town Car westbound on Highway 20 in Mellette. Vollmer failed to stop and collided with a northbound Burlington Northern-Santa Fe train operated by Mark Anthony Perman, 46, Aberdeen, SD.
Vollmer was pronounced dead at the scene.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating. The Spink County Sheriff's Office and Spink County Ambulance assisted.
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