Father Dead, 9-Year-Old Son Missing After Their Jet Ski Collides With Barge on a Tennessee Lake

Father Dead, 9-Year-Old Son Missing After Their Jet Ski Collides With Barge on a Tennessee Lake
Police tape in a recent file photo. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
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Ashland City, Tenn.—The weekend collision of a jet ski and a barge on a Tennessee waterway has left officials searching for a 9-year-old boy whose father died in the crash.

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency said 36-year-old Steven White died after the jet ski carrying him and his son hit a barge being pushed by a tow boat around 7:30 p.m. Saturday on a lake northwest of Nashville, The Tennessean reported.