Tuesday officials released the autopsy report for the man who was killed while walking along a road when he was hit by South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, as he was driving home.
Driving home from dinner, Ravnsborg said he thought he struck a deer.
He said he called authorities and found Boever’s body at the crash site the following day.
Ravnsborg also said he hadn’t been drinking at the dinner.
55-year-old Joseph Boever’s cause of death was “traumatic injuries due to a pedestrian motor vehicle crash,” South Dakota Public Safety Secretary Craig Price said. “Injuries were extensive, both internally and externally.”
A toxicology report of a blood sample Ravnsborg had supplied showed no alcohol in his system, Price said.
Officials released the audio and a transcript of Ravnsborg’s 911 call, he told the dispatcher he wasn’t sure what he hit, saying “it was in the middle of the road.”
“It sure hit me,” he said in the two-minute recording. “Smashed my windshield.”
“On no,” said the dispatcher. “Okay, do you think it was a deer or something?”
“I have no idea,” he said.
