13/05/2015

Teenager In Critical Condition Following Speedboat Accident

A teenager is in a critical condition is hospital following a serious boating accident in the Solent.

A speedboat crashed and overturned just after 08:20 near Warsash Maritime Academy, off Hamble, Hampshire.

Three men and the teenage boy where injured in the crash.

The boat is believed to have crashed into a cardinal marker buoy before it capsized.

(MH/CD)

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