Saturday, June 4, 2011

Two Die in Boat Crash on the Rappahannock

     Windmill Point, Va. -- A man and a woman died Friday in a boat accident on the Rappahannock River. The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is investigating the accident, which happened at about 10:15 p.m. where the Rappahannock meets the Chesapeake.
     A spokesperson for the department said a 25-foot Grady-White powerboat was traveling at a high rate of speed when it struck a bulkhead. Both occupants of the boat, a 37-year-old woman and a 46-year-old man, were killed at the scene. Their names have not yet been released.
     Their bodies were sent to the state medical examiner’s office for an autopsy to determine the cause of the deaths. Investigators said the boat was totaled but the victims were not thrown from the boat.

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