CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Police say an 8-year-old boy has died after a boat collision that also killed a man and injured another person on a Virginia river.
Virginia Marine Police spokesperson Matthew Rogers says the child died at a hospital on Friday morning from injuries that he sustained in Wednesday night’s collision between a tugboat and a small recreational boat on the Elizabeth River.
The Virginian-Pilot reports that the boy was one of three passengers on a nine-foot skiff when it hit a 59-foot tugboat near the Jordan Bridge. A man who was steering the skiff with the 8-year-old aboard died at the scene of the collision.
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