WATERTOWN, S.D.(KELO.com) — A stunning development today in the investigation of a fatal car crash on Highway 212 in Watertown.
Police don’t believe it was an accident that took the life of 43-year-old Dawn Meyer.
Assistant Police Chief Tim Toomey says investigators working the case believe the 16-year-old boy from Moorhead, Minnesota who slammed into Meyer’s car head-on in front of Target did so intentionally, and the case is now considered a homicide investigation.
The speed limit where the crash occurred is 35 miles per hour. Authorities determined the juvenile’s car was doing in excess of 100 miles per hour.
The investigation is far from over.
KWAT News has confirmed the juvenile involved in the crash was a runaway. He is hospitalized in Sioux Falls with serious injuries.
Watertown Police say that they have not had a chance to interview him.
However, detectives say they’ll do that as soon as possible.
(Mike Tanner, KWAT, and Troy VanDusen, KXLG, contributed this report.)
