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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, Aug. l5, 2006
CONTACT: Capt. Kevin Joffer, South Dakota Highway Patrol,605.367.5700
Fatal Motorcycle Crash
Sioux Falls, S.D. - A Caledonia, Minnesota man lost his life in a motorcycle crash in BruleCounty on Friday. It happened about six miles west of Kimball.
D. Joseph Doucet, 80, was traveling east on I-90, through a construction zone that had head to head traffic. Doucet came over a hill on his motorcycle and crashed into the back of a Ford Explorer. The Explorer was stopped on the Interstate because of heavy traffic on the road.
Doucet was flown to a Sioux Falls hospital where he died. Neither of the people in the Explorer was injured.
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