ARMOUR Authorities have released names in a two-vehicle crash on May 14 that killed a woman and seriously injured another woman 10 miles northeast of Armour.
Preliminary crash information indicates Sheryl Lynn Tate, 65 and of Winner, the driver of a 2004 Chrysler Town and Country, was traveling east on state Highway 44. A Peterbilt semi with dump trailer, driven by Matthew James Boelter, 38 and of Tyndall, was traveling the same direction ahead of the Chrysler and had slowed down for a right turn. The approaching Chrysler swerved to the right, colliding with the right rear side of the dump trailer.
Boelter, the driver of the semi, was not injured. Tate was pronounced dead at the scene, and a passenger in the Chrysler, Annette Dawn Farmer, 29 and of Sioux Falls, sustained serious, non-life-threatening injuries.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating the crash. All information released so far is only preliminary.
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