93.9 The Eagle – The News and Talk of Columbia, MO
The only death over the weekend at the Lake of the Ozarks happened late Sunday night.
The Highway Patrol says David Crouse swam after a boat that drifted away at the 56 mile marker on the Osage Arm of the lake and drowned at about 9:30 p.m.
The Stover man was 57 years old.
Troopers worked 376 traffic crashes statewide during the Fourth of July holiday counting period, which ran from the evening of July 3 through July 7. There were 139 injuries and nine fatalities on the roads. It appears no one died in boating accidents, but there were three drownings.
(This story was last updated at 10:49 a.m. Monday.)
