Texas Has Highest Number of Boating Deaths in the Country

Courtesy KEYE - CBS 42  Fri, 07/04/2008 - 9:24pm

LCRA officers are stepping up patrols on area waterways this holiday weekend, just as a statistic was released that 52 Texans were killed in boating accidents last week.


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