Name Released in Roberts County Fatal Crash


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, July 22, 2016
Contact
: Tony Mangan, Department of Public Safety, 605-280-5648

 

 

Name Released in Roberts County Fatal Crash

 

 

What: One-vehicle rollover

Where:  485th Avenue and 140th Street, four miles north of Summit, S.D.

When: 9:40 p.m., Wednesday, July 20, 2016

 

Driver: Justin Magnuson, 18, Sisseton, S.D., Fatal Injuries

Passengers: Female, 10, Sisseton, S.D., Serious Non-Life Threatening Injuries

                      Female, 10, Sisseton, S.D., Serious Non-Life Threatening Injuries

Vehicle: 1997 Chevrolet Cavalier

 

SUMMIT, S.D. – Justin Magnuson, 18, of Sisseton, SD., has been identified as the person who died in a one-vehicle rollover that occurred Wednesday night north of Summit.

 

Magnuson was driving a1997 Chevrolet Cavalier northbound on 458th Avenue when he lost control of the car. The vehicle eventually went into the ditch and rolled. The driver, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was pronounced dead at the scene.

 

Two female passengers, both age 10, each suffered serious non-life threatening injuries. Both were wearing seatbelts.

 

The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating the crash. Other agencies on scene were the Roberts County Sheriff’s Office, Grant/Roberts Fire Department, Grant/Roberts Ambulance and Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribal Officers.

 

 An approximate location on the crash can be found here: SUMMIT CRASH

 

The Highway Patrol is part of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.

 

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Note: Records of state-reportable crashes are now available at http://www.safesd.gov/  Records should be available about 10 days after the investigation is complete.