Boating deaths already at 13 statewide
COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS
Sunday, April 12, 2009
DALLAS
Statewide boating deaths at 13
Thirteen people have died in Texas boating accidents this year, one more than at this point last year.
Major Alfonso Campos, chief of marine enforcement for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said the state is off to a "grim start" this boating season, in part because of strong winds.
"This is the time of the year when the wind picks up, but people want to go out because it's warm," Campos told The Dallas Morning News. "But then the wind picks up and they capsize."
Boating accidents on Dallas-area lakes led to the deaths this week of an 18-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman. In both instances, boats overturned in high winds. The wind also might have played a role in the death of a 54-year-old man whose sailboat was grounded last month on Lake Lewisville, considered one of the state's most dangerous lakes.
Sixty-one people died on Texas waterways last year. The number of deaths has steadily risen annually since 2005, when 36 were reported.
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