Authorities identify two men killed in Fall River County crash.

Authories ID two men killed in Fall River County crash

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EDGEMONT, S.D. – Authorities have identified two men died Wednesday morning in a single-vehicle crash three miles south of Edgemont, SD.

Preliminary crash information indicates 55-year-old Michael S. Gembala of Edgemont, the driver of a 2001 Ford F250 was headed southbound on SD Hwy. 471 when the vehicle ran off the roadway then returned to the southbound lane, over-corrected and went off the roadway again, down an embankment, and rolled several times.

Gembala and a passenger in the vehicle, 64-year-old Roy J. Nielson of Willmar, Minnesota, were not wearing seatbelts and both sustained fatal injuries.

The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.

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