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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018
CONTACT: Tony Mangan, Public Information Officer, 605-280-5648
Names Released in Pennington County Fatal Crash
What: Motorcycle-Semi-truck crash
Where: Highway 1416 and South Ellsworth Road
Box Elder, S.D.
When: 2:31 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018
Driver No 1: James Bradley, 54, Parker, AZ, Fatal Injuries
Passenger: Deanna Bradley, 45, Parker, AZ, Fatal Injuries
Vehicle: 2005 Harley Davidson DXI
Driver No. 2: Greg Bunch, 54, San Diego, CA, Minor Injuries
Passenger: Christina Logan Bettencourt, 30, San Diego, CA, Minor Injuries
Vehicle: 2003 BTM Harley Davidson
Driver No 3: Male (Invoked Marsy’s Law)
Vehicle: 2018 Freightliner Semi Truck
BOX ELDER, S.D. – Two people from Arizona have been identified as those killed Thursday afternoon in a crash involving two motorcycles and a semi-truck in Box Elder.
Two other people were injured in the crash.
Two Harley Davidson motorcycles were westbound on Highway 1416 when they failed to stop at the posted stop sign at the intersection with South Ellsworth Road. The two motorcycles collided with a 2016 Freightliner semi-truck pulling triple trailers that was turning onto Highway 1416 from Box Elder Road.
The occupants of one motorcycle were pronounced dead at the scene. They were identified as the driver, James Bradley, 54, and the passenger, Deanna Bradley, 45, both of Parker, AZ. Both were wearing helmets.
Both occupants of the other motorcycle sustained minor injuries. They were the driver, 54-year-old Greg Bunch, and 30-year-old Christina Logan Bettencourt, both of San Diego, CA. She was transported to a Rapid City hospital. Neither was wearing a helmet.
The semi-truck driver was not injured.
South Dakota’s Highway Patrol is investigating the 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