10/17/11
by Perry Miller
A Mellette woman is killed when her car collides with a train in
Spink County.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol says the accident happened around
5:30 p.m. Friday on Highway 20 in Mellette.
Killed in the crash was 67-year-old Rita Louise Vollmer. She was driving
a car on South Dakota Highway 20 that faled to stop and collided with
with the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe train.
Vollmer was pronounced dead at the scene.
The engineer and a passenger on the train were not hurt.
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