Newell,  SD  (SDHP)  The South Dakota Highway Patrol reports,  a 37-year-old Jamestown man, Dustin Vaughn, has been identified as the man who died in a two vehicle crash near Newell in far northwest South Dakota, about 26 miles north of Sturgis.

Th report says Vaughn died last Thursday morning , May 20, when his 2010 GMC Acadia that was westbound on U.S. Highway 212 rear-ended a trailer being pulled by a westbound semi.

His passenger, 24 year old Brandi Glaser, of Jamestown, suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash and was airlifted to a Rapid City hospital. Both weren’t wearing seat belts.

The driver of the semi 47 year old Michael Peterson, of Ridgeview, S.D. was not injured.