Four die in weekend accidents

By Andrea J. Cook, Journal Staff Writer | Tuesday, July 11, 2006

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Two weekend accidents on Rosebud Indian Reservation claimed the lives of three people and seriously injured another.

And a Rapid City man has died from injuries he received in a motorcycle accident Sunday along Interstate 90.

Alcohol and speed were involved in the motorcycle accident that killed James P. Lester, 34, according to an accident report issued Monday by the South Dakota Highway Patrol.

Lester was traveling north on I-90 at 5 p.m. Sunday when his motorcycle entered the on-ramp at Exit 57. Lester, who was not wearing a helmet, was thrown from the motorcycle when it left the road.

Lester was taken to Rapid City Regional Hospital, where he died Monday.

In an accident shortly before midnight Saturday, a father and daughter were killed in a three-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 83 north of Mission.

Daryl Peneaux, 43, and Maria Peneaux, 21, of Mission and formerly of Corn Creek were killed when the mini-van Daryl Peneaux was driving was hit by a vehicle that apparently swerved to miss a deer, according to Bob Perry, temporary supervisory senior resident agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Rapid City.

Two additional passengers in the Peneaux vehicle, identified only as Daryl Peneaux's wife and the daughter's boyfriend, were not seriously injured, Perry said.

The Peneaux's van was sideswiped by a one-ton Ford pickup pulling a race car. The pickup was headed north, and the Peneaux vehicle was southbound at the time of the accident.

After striking the Peneaux vehicle, the pickup and trailer spun in the roadway hitting a third vehicle. The four occupants of that third vehicle escaped without serious injuries before their vehicle burst into flames, Perry said.

The driver of the pickup, David Murray, 43, of Oberlin, Kan., his wife, Nikki, and an unidentified daughter were not seriously injured, Perry said.

Murray is a three three-time national modified champion in the International Motor Contest Association, according to his Web site.

Perry said the accident remains under investigation. Alcohol is not believed to have been a factor in the accident.

Alcohol likely did contribute to an accident early Sunday morning that killed Jarrod Bordeaux, 22, of St. Franics, according to Perry.

Bordeaux was one of two men in a vehicle that attempted to pass another on a Bureau of Indian Affairs highway north of St. Francis. Bordeaux is believed to have been driving.

Bordeaux apparently lost control of his vehicle when it clipped the other car.

Bordeaux and a passenger, Terry Eastman, 20, were ejected from the vehicle.

Eastman was taken to Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls. No information about his condition was available Monday. Eastman is believed to be from St. Francis.

James P. Lester's obituary appears on Page B2.

Contact Andrea Cook at 394-8423 or andrea.cook@rapidcityjournal.com