Ravnsborg struck and killed a pedestrian on the shoulder of a highway in September 2020.
The South Dakota House on Tuesday impeached state over a 2020 fatal crash in which he initially told authorities he thought he had struck a deer or another large animal. Ravnsborg will at least temporarily be removed from office pending the historic Senate trial, where it takes a two-thirds majority to convict on impeachment charges. Ravnsborg last year to a pair of traffic misdemeanors in the crash, including making an illegal lane change. He cast Joseph Boever’s death as a tragic accident. On Monday night, he sent lawmakers a pair of defiant letters urging them to vote against impeachment. „In a few hours, your vote will set a precedent for years to come,“ Ravnsborg said in the first of two letters sent Monday night and obtained by the Argus Leader. „No state has ever impeached an elected official for a traffic accident.
