Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, July 28, 1990                   TAG: 9007280113
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: By NEAL THOMPSON
DATELINE: NEWBERN                                LENGTH: Medium

PULASKI BOY KILLED IN LAKE COLLISION

Richard K. Alley of 11th Street in northwest Pulaski was pronounced dead at the Rockhouse Marina, where he was taken shortly after the 8 p.m. collision.

A spokesman for the state Department of Game and Inland Fisheries in Richmond said Alley's death was the 14th boat-related fatality in Virginia this year.

Alley had been riding the jet ski in a narrow inlet in the southwest part of the lake called Peak Creek Hollow, said Lt. Ralph Dobbins of the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department.

"There's a real sharp bend in the cove. Visibility is poor," Dobbins said.

Witnesses told police that Alley was riding on the right side of the cove when a boat came around the bend traveling on the left side in the opposite direction, "which would put him on the wrong side of the lake," Dobbins said.

James Franklin Pugh, 34, of Wytheville, was operating the boat, which also was occupied by his wife, their son and another boy, said a spokeswoman for the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries in Marion.

When the two craft collided, Pugh and his wife were thrown into the water. Two nearby fishermen saw the collision and rescued the Pughs.

The fishermen also pulled Alley from the water and tried resuscitating him while they took him in their boat to meet rescue workers at the marina, Dobbins said.

The Pughs and the two boys were taken to Radford Community Hospital, where they were treated for minor injuries and released.

Dobbins said no charges were brought, but the case has been turned over to the Game Department. Spokeswoman Virginia Jesse said no charges had been filed Friday.

Keywords:
FATALITY