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A 28-year-old Woodland, Wash., man died New Year's Eve when the car he was driving failed to make a turn, traveled down a bank and crashed. Christopher J. Beacock died at the scene. Two passengers, Matthew S. Hance, 25, of Battleground, Wash., and Nicholas L. Ackerill, 33, of Ridgefield, Wash., were transported to Southwest Washington Medical Center. Their condition was unknown. Beacock was test-driving the car, a 2003 Ford Mustang owned by Hance. Witnesses told police the car was speeding at the time of the crash, about 10:40 p.m.
A lawyer from Kansas is dead after the water scooter he was operating collided with a motorboat in southwest Florida.
The crash happened Sunday afternoon in Charlotte County.
A Charlotte County Fire and EMS spokeswoman told the stated that 54-year-old Lee Hollis of Leawood, Kan., died Monday. Doctors amputated one of his legs on Sunday afternoon.