{"id":388982,"date":"2026-07-28T11:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388982\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:26:27","slug":"boy-dead-after-boat-collision-along-texas-gulf-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388982\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy dead after boat collision along Texas Gulf Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

A teenager is dead after being ejected from a boat in a Saturday morning collision with another vessel off the coast of Corpus Christi. Texas Parks & Wildlife<\/a> announced on Sunday<\/a> that an unidentified 16-year-old boy had died after the accident around 6 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n

Texas Parks and Wildlife responded to an incident at the Bird Island Basin boat ramp on the Laguna Madre at around 6:15 a.m. Saturday, according to a statement. The boat ramp is located near the Bird Basin Campground on Padre Island, about 30 miles southeast of Corpus Christi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“A jon boat with three occupants collided with a center console boat, resulting in a 16-year-old boy being ejected from the jon boat,” read the TPWD statement Sunday. “Unfortunately, he did not survive.<\/p>\n

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the young man’s family during this difficult time.”<\/p>\n

An investigation by the Texas Game Warden Boat Accident Reconstruction Team is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the same day, just an hour later at 7:15 a.m., a boater participating in a fishing\u00a0tournament at Lake Tawakoni, about 58 miles east of Dallas, was ejected from his vessel<\/a> after striking a stump. Texas Game Wardens searched for several hours until they found the man safely in the water. The boater was found wearing his life jacket and his boat’s emergency engine cut-off switch, which Game Wardens say aided in the discovery.<\/p>\n

The rescue operation also included nearby fire and police departments, Air Evac 67, and multiple drone teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager is dead after being ejected from a boat in a Saturday morning collision with another vessel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2084,1836,1704,155,157,156],"class_list":["post-388982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-chrongulf","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}