MILBANK, S.D.(Press Release)– A Milbank, SD man received fatal injuries in a single vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon, two and a half miles east of Milbank, SD.
Preliminary crash information indicates Ronald Lee Vernlund, the driver of a 2000 Ford F250, was traveling east on 149th Street near 481st Avenue when the vehicle slid across the slick roadway and into the north ditch and rolled into a field. Vernlund was ejected and received fatal injuries in the crash.
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.