DEADWOOD, S.D. – The South Dakota Highway Patrol has identified a 92-year-old Piedmont man who died Friday evening in a four-vehicle crash one mile east of Deadwood, SD.

Preliminary crash information indicates that Robert Allen Erickson, the driver of a 2019 Chevrolet Suburban, was traveling east on US Highway 14A and crossed the centerline, sideswiping an oncoming 2010 Ford Flex driven by 41-year-old Joanna Silvia Barlow of Lead, causing the Ford to spin and come to rest on the center-line.

The Suburban then struck an oncoming Ford F-150 head-on, driven by 44-year-old Justin Weaver of Rapid City, which went off the road and into the ditch. The Suburban then struck a GMC Sierra, driven by 42-year-old Cody Lynn Oliver of Deadwood. The Suburban came to rest in the westbound passing lane.

Erickson was pronounced deceased at the scene. Justin Weaver and passenger, 41-year-old Lindsey Weaver in the F-150, were transported to Monument Health in Rapid City with life-threatening injuries. Joanna Barlow and a two-year-old passenger in the Ford Flex, and Cody Oliver in the GMC Sierra, were not injured.

The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.