Names Released in Edmunds County Fatal Crash

What:    Two vehicle fatal crash
Where:  US Highway 12, mile marker 241, eight miles west of Roscoe, SD 
When:   8:12 p.m.,  Thursday, October 23, 2025

Driver 1: Shawna Laree Weishaar, 63-year-old female from Belle Fourche, SD, fatal injuries
Vehicle 1: 2003 Toyota Highlander
Seat belt Used: No

Driver 2: Tacey Dean Miller, 19-year-old male from Webster, SD, minor injuries
Vehicle 2: 2018 GMC Sierra
Seat belt Used: Yes
Passenger 2a: Harvey Torbert Williamson,19-year-old male from Federalsburg, MD, minor injuries
Seat belt Used: Yes

Edmunds County, S.D.- A Belle Fourche woman died and two others were injured in a two-vehicle crash Thursday evening eight miles west of Roscoe, SD.

Preliminary crash information indicates Shawna Laree Weishaar, the driver of a 2003 Toyota Highlander, was traveling eastbound on US Highway 12 near mile marker 241 when a deer ran into the roadway. Weishaar swerved to avoid the deer but struck it and entered the westbound lane, colliding with an oncoming 2018 GMC Sierra.

Weishaar sustained fatal injuries. Tacey Dean Miller, the driver of the GMC, sustained minor injuries. A passenger in the GMC, Harvey Torbert Williamson, also had minor injuries.

The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating the crash. All information released so far is only preliminary.

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

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