WESSINGTON — A construction zone worker died Tuesday from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash two miles east of Wessington.

Preliminary crash information indicates Tiburcio Gonzalez, Jr, the driver of a 2022 Dodge Ram, was traveling westbound on U.S. Highway 14 near mile marker 319 and entered a construction zone. Sandra Guerra Ceballos, a construction worker ‘Flagger’ was on on-scene directing westbound traffic to slow down and stop.

Gonzalez had stopped as directed. As Eric James Kunkel, the driver of a 2023 International MV607 traveling the same direction approached, he collided with the Dodge, and then struck Ceballos.

Ms. Ceballos suffered fatal injuries. The two drivers and Jose Gabriel Mendoza Naba, a passenger in the Dodge, sustained minor injuries and were transported to a nearby hospital.