KANAB, Utah (AP) — A teenager visiting southern Utah’s Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park died on Sunday after he was entrapped beneath a sand dune that had collapsed on him a day prior.
Ian Spendlove, a 13 year old from the St. George suburbs, was pronounced dead on Sunday after not regaining brain activity lost in the inicdent, the Utah State Parks Department said Monday.
After a family member alerted authorities, park rangers arrived at Spendlove’s location Saturday evening to dig him out from what they said was about six-and-a-half feet (two meters) of sand. Rangers said they believed Spendlove had been digging a tunnel into the sand dune when it collapsed on him.
After rangers and Kane County Sheriff’s deputies rescued him and found he had a pulse, Spendlove was transported to St. George Regional Hospital and then to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, where he was declared dead.
The department said the incident remains under investigation and urged visitors to be safe, wear helmets or life jackets and alert others of recreation plans when in state parks.
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“The Utah Division of State Parks extends our condolences to Ian Spendlove’s friends and family impacted by this tragedy,” it said in the press release.
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