Virginia boy, 17, dies in sand hole collapse in North Carolina

A 17-year-old boy died Saturday after he was discovered buried in a number of ft of sand at Cape Hatteras Nationwide Seashore in North Carolina, authorities stated.

Seashore legislation enforcement rangers responded at about 2 p.m. to a 911 name about a young person trapped in a gap that was a few tenth of a mile east of an off-road car ramp in Frisco, the Nationwide Park Service stated in an announcement.

Household and associates had been on the lookout for the teenager after they discovered him within the sand, apparently brought on by parts of an adjoining dune collapsing into the outlet, in response to the assertion.

The outlet had been dug in a back-dune space that was not seen from the beachfront, the park service stated. Officers haven’t disclosed who dug the outlet.

Rangers and different officers labored with the teenager’s kinfolk to tug the teenager from the outlet whereas performing CPR on him, however resuscitation efforts have been unsuccessful, in response to the assertion. The sufferer, whose title was not launched, was from Chesapeake, Virginia, the park service stated.

“Cape Hatteras Nationwide Seashore presents our condolences to his household and associates,” David Hallac, superintendent of the Nationwide Parks of Japanese North Carolina, stated within the assertion. “We urge guests to not dig deep holes on the seashore because of the hazard they current to beachgoers and emergency response employees.”

The incident, which stays beneath investigation, occurred almost one yr after the deaths of Ian Spendlove, 13, of Santa Clara, Utah, and Levy Caverley, 18, of Maine, final Could.

Spendlove died after the tunnel he’d dug into the facet of a sand dune at Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park collapsed with him inside, officers stated in a assertion.

Days later, Caverley died after a gap he and his sister have been digging within the sand at a New Jersey seashore collapsed on them. The sister was rescued and handled on the scene.

And in 2014, a 9-year-old woman died at an Oregon seashore and a person died at a California seashore in sand gap collapses.