Texas man dies when boat overturns

Team Radio Marketing Group - January 16, 2018 7:38 am

A fatal boating incident occurred about 4:25 p.m. Monday on Waurika Lake, about 1/2 mile southeast of the Wichita Ridge boat ramp, approximately 3 miles north of Hastings, OK, in Jefferson County.

Darwin Wayne Smith, 73, of Arlington, Texas, was driving an aluminum flat-bottomed boat which overturned, throwing Smith overboard. He was pronounced dead at the scene by Medical Examiner Ron Jenkins. The exact cause of death is pending the medical examiner’s report.

 

 

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