14 year old boy killed in snowboarding accident at Ski Bluewood in Columbia County.

Modified Date: 
Fri, 06/03/2016 - 4:19pm
Accident Date: 
Friday, January 24, 2014

14-year-old snowboarder killed.

A 14-year-old Burbank boy was fatally injured in a snowboarding accident at Ski Bluewood near Dayton.

A 14-year-old Burbank boy was fatally injured in a snowboarding accident at Ski Bluewood near Dayton. A ski area spokeswoman stated that the ski patrol found him injured shortly after noon Saturday at the top of a beginner trail called the Country Road run. A Life Flight helicopter was requested but unable to respond because of the weather. An ambulance took the boy to Columbia County Hospital in Dayton where he died. He was an eighth-grader at Columbia Middle School in Burbank. Ski Bluewood is located in the far southeast corner of Eastern Washington, four miles north of the Oregon border in the Umatilla National Forest.

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Roadway: 
Unknown
City: 
Dayton, WA

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