AVINGER, Texas (AP) – A third Boy Scout has died from injuries suffered when a sailboat struck an overhanging power line on a lake east of Dallas.
Texas Parks & Wildlife spokesman Steve Lightfoot says the 11-year-old Scout died Monday. He was hospitalized in Shreveport, Louisiana, following the accident Saturday.
The boy was sailing in a catamaran with two older boys, one 17 and the other 16, when the mast struck the power line at Lake O’The Pines near Avinger, 150 miles (241 kilometers) from Dallas.
A Scout official says a Scout leader quickly reached the boat but the two teens were already dead.
It wasn’t clear Monday why the power line was overhanging the water, in proximity to watercraft.