The tragic accident occurred at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
A teenager from Chesapeake, Virginia, died Saturday after being trapped under a collapsing dune at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in Frisco, North Carolina., friends and family of the 17-year-old called authorities around 2 p.m. after discovering him buried in “several feet of sand, apparently caused by portions of the adjacent dune collapsing” into a hole the teen had evidently entered in the back of dune area.
David Hallac, the superintendent for the National Parks of Eastern North Carolina, shared a somber statement about the tragedy. “Cape Hatteras National Seashore offers our condolences to his family and friends,” he said. “We urge visitors not to dig deep holes on the beach due to the danger they present to beachgoers and emergency response staff.”Collapsing sand has caused fatalities before. In 2014,
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