CANTON, S.D. (AP) — Three people died and one was injured in an automobile crash south of Sioux Falls that authorities discovered while investigating a stolen vehicle.
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that it got a report around 5 a.m. Saturday of a vehicle stolen from a farm. A supervisor from the farm suspected that the person who stole the vehicle had been involved in an accident.
A search of nearby roads led to an accident scene ten miles northwest of Beresford. A deputy discovered a 2014 Ram 1500 Sport that had left the road, went airborne over a driveway, and rolled multiple times in a ditch. Two individuals were dead when the deputy arrived. The third died at the scene a short time later. The deceased are two males, ages 20 and 18, and a 19-year old female.
The sheriff’s office said the fourth person, a 20-year old male, appeared to have left the scene and stolen a vehicle from a nearby farm following the accident. Authorities found the stolen vehicle and the individual hours later at a home in Beresford. He was taken to a local hospital with serious non-life threatening injuries.
The investigation is ongoing.
The news release didn’t say whether the pickup truck that rolled was the same vehicle that was reported stolen. Officials with the sheriff’s office did not immediately return a call seeking clarification.
