STURGIS, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Highway Patrol says a Missouri man who crashed his motorcycle near Deadwood is this year's first Sturgis Motorcycle Rally-related fatality.
KBHB radio reports that 70-year-old Peter Diangi of Sunrise Beach was thrown from his motorcycle as it slid into a ditch on Tuesday. Troopers say Diangi was traveling at a high rate of speed and lost control on a downhill curve.
He was taken to a Deadwood hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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