Crime & Safety

Accident Injures Boater Near Hobcaw Point

Boat strikes dock, man goes overboard.

A boating accident near Hobcaw Yacht Club in Mount Pleasant injured one man Friday evening, according to authorities.

It happend sometime after 9 p.m. when a woman noticed that her neighbor's dock was destroyed and that a boat was capsized nearby, according to media reports.

At first, the victim told authorities that three other people were in the boat with him at the time of the accident, but he apparently suffered serious head injuries that made his memory of the event unclear.

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After searching the Wando River for more than an hour, authorities found the three other victims safely at home, according to ABC News 4.

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