Crime & Safety

Four Macomb County Men Killed in South Dakota Accident

Three St. Clair Shores men, and a man from New Baltimore, were killed early Wednesday in an accident in South Dakota, according Keloland.com

Four Macomb County men were killed, and a fifth was seriously injured, when the Ford Excursion they were riding in was struck by a semi truck in South Dakota, according to a report by the AP and a story on Keloland.com.

According to the website, the men were traveling in northeast South Dakota about 5:40 a.m. when the SUV driven by Wesley Allen Frasard, 71, of St. Clair Shores, failed to stop at a stop sign and was struck by a semi-truck.

South Dakota Highway Patrol reported that the impact killed St. Clair Shores residents Frasard, Ledger John Frasard Jr., 68,  and 77-year-old William Edward Petrocy. Nikolaos Andreopoulos, 69,  of New Baltimore, was also killed. Thomas Edward Thorngate, 52 of St. Clair Shores, was taken to an Aberdeen, S.D., hospital with life-threatening injuries.

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The driver of the truck received minor injuries, according to the report.


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