A Lead, SD man died in a two-vehicle crash Thursday morning on Highway 14A in Deadwood, SD.
Preliminary crash information indicates Joseph Bernard Schumacher, the driver of a 2011 Honda Ridgeline was traveling west on US Highway 14A near mile marker 40 when the vehicle crossed the center line and collided with an eastbound Ford F-550 driven by Robert Ray Stagner. Both vehicles came to rest in the eastbound lanes.
Schumacher was pronounced deceased at the scene. Stagner was not injured.
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.
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