Man dies after boating accident

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DAPHNE -- A Foley man died Tuesday, Sept. 14, after being injured in a boating accident the week before on Mobile Bay in Daphne, state officials said.

Richard Lloyd Dove, 39, died at a local hospital, according to a statement by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Marine Patrol Division.

Dove was injured in a single-vessel crash at about 6:40 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 9 near the Lake Forest Yacht Club. The boat he was operating hit a pylon throwing him and a passenger, Timothy Jack Barnas, 24, of Foley, from the vessel, according to the statement.

Dove was airlifted to the hospital after the accident.

The accident is under investigation by ALEA and no other information was available.