Boat Crash Kills Northern Minn. Man, Injures 2 Others
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 23-year-old northern Minnesota man died after a boat he was in crashed into a rock Friday night on Lake Shagawa.
The St. Louis County Sheriff's Office said the crash wasn't reported until early Saturday morning, when a caller on one of the lake's islands phoned it in.
The two survivors told deputies that they were in a boat, traveling fast, when they crashed into a rock near an island.
All three were thrown from the boat.
Brice D. Bundy, of Ely, Minn., died at the scene, the sheriff's office said.
The driver, 27-year-old Nicholas E. White of Babbitt, and the other passenger suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
The crash remains under investigation.