MOODY COUNTY (10-30-26) — The South Dakota Highway Patrol releases the names of some of those involved in a three-vehicle crash that left four people dead Monday, October 26 shortly after 8:30 p.m. ten miles north of Colman on I-29.
The patrol says 88-year old Arthur Anthony Wilber of Hendricks, Minnesota was driving northbound in the southbound lanes of I-29 near mile marker 119 and collided head-on with a southbound car driven by a 15-year old girl from Flandreau who was attempting to pass a semi. After the two vehicles collided, the semi struck one of the cars and subsequently jackknifed.
Wilber was ejected from his vehicle and sustained fatal injuries.
The 15-year old girl from Flandreau and two of her passengers — a 12-year old girl from Flandreau and a 16-year old from Flandreau — sustained fatal injuries. Another 12-year old girl from Flandreau was taken to a Sioux Falls hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Names of the minors are not being released.
The semi driver — 59-year old Richard Alan Kopfmann of Arlington — was not injured.
The southbound lanes of I-29 were closed for about six hours.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol is continuing to investigate.
— Brookings Radio News
