KEYSTONE, S.D. – A Hot Springs, S.D., man has been identified as the person who died Saturday morning in a fatal crash involving three motorcycles that occurred near Keystone.
Preliminary crash information indicates that a 2019 Indian Roadmaster was westbound on U.S. Highway 16A when the driver failed to negotiate a curve. The motorcycle crossed the center line and collided with an eastbound 2020 Harley Davidson. The Indian Roadmaster then went into the ditch and struck a 2011 Harley Davidson Road King, which was unoccupied and parked on the shoulder of the road.
Keith Schroeder, the 63-year-old driver of the Indian Roadmaster, was thrown from his motorcycle and was pronounced dead at the scene. Ray Hatcher of Independence, MO, who was the 60-year-old driver of the 2020 Harley Davidson, suffered serious non-life threatening injuries and was taken by ambulance to a Rapid City hospital. Neither driver was wearing a helmet. The third driver, 69-year-old James Keenan of Barbeton, OH, was not injured.
South Dakota’s Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.
