One man is dead and one woman is in the hospital after their vehicle slammed into a tree near the Pine Ridge school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Capt. Ron Duke with the Oglala Sioux Tribe's Department of Public Safety says the accident took place around 5 p.m.Saturday.

 He says both the driver and the passenger were intoxicated at the time of the crash, but the exact cause remains under investigation.  Duke says it is the first fatal accident on the reservation in several months.

Jim Peterson