South Dakota
Meals on Wheels of Western South Dakota needs volunteers
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RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) – Rising grocery prices has brought about folks on fastened incomes, just like the aged, to show elsewhere to get their meals wants met, inserting a heavy burden on non-profit organizations like Meals on Wheels.
Meals on Wheels of Western South Dakota wants volunteers to assist drive meals to residence certain senior residents within the Black Hills. The rise in folks requesting meals has led the group so as to add a further route but in addition makes the necessity for volunteers extra pressing.
“Our volunteers come to our kitchen, choose up a few coolers crammed with cold and warm meals after which ship it out to the group. It takes wherever from 45 minutes to about an hour and a half to do a route, often between 10 and 15 stops,” mentioned Tim Schnider, group useful resource coordinator for Meals on Wheels of Western South Dakota.
At the moment Meals on Wheels wants about 13 volunteers per week. Volunteers have to be over the age of 18, have a sound driver’s license, and have insurance coverage on their vehicles. Along with bringing meals, volunteers supply a stage of companionship to most of the home-bound the group serves.
Schnider says volunteering is a rewarding feeling. “Getting to assist out the seniors in the neighborhood and simply to listen to their tales, getting to fulfill their pets, and tales of their previous and their kids and it’s exhausting to clarify how rewarding it’s till you’ve really gone out and carried out it.”
For extra data on how one can signal as much as volunteer head to the Meals on Wheels of Western South Dakota web site.
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The share of fatal crashes involving a teen driver is higher in South Dakota than in almost any other state.
The state has the ninth-highest percentage of deadly crashes involving a teen driver at 16.4%, according to a recent analysis of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data by Bumper, a vehicle history report website.
The analysis found that, nationwide, the number of people who died in crashes involving teen drivers has increased by 25% since 2013. In 2023, a total of 5,588 people died in crashes involving a teen driver, including passengers, cyclists, pedestrians and other drivers.
It also determined that while teen drivers account for only 5.1% of all licensed drivers in the country, they represent 8.9% of drivers in fatal crashes.
South Dakota had a total of 146 traffic crash fatalities in 2024, up from 140 in 2023 and 137 in 2022, according to the state Department of Public Safety. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 39,345 people died in traffic crashes nationwide in 2024, about a 4% decrease from 2023.
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What states had the highest teen involvement in fatal crashes?
These states had the highest percentage of crash deaths involving a teen driver.
- Kansas, 18.9%
- Utah, 17.9%
- Idaho, 17.5%
- Montana, 17.3%
- Wisconsin, 17%
- Missouri, 16.9%
- Indiana, 16.8%
- Colorado, 16.5%
- South Dakota, 16.4%
- New Mexico, 15.8%
What states had the lowest teen involvement in fatal crashes?
These states had the lowest percentage of crash deaths involving a teen driver.
- District of Columbia, 4.5%
- New Hampshire, 6.2%
- Hawaii, 6.5%
- Wyoming, 8.3%
- North Dakota, 8.5%
- Vermont, 8.7%
- Connecticut, 10.10%
- Oregon, 10.4%
- Maine, 10.4%
- Maryland, 10.5%
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