A boat with 5 people hit a channel marker in the Florida Keys, and a Hialeah man died
A Hialeah man died Saturday night after the boat he was driving struck a channel marker in the Florida Keys.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the agency investigating the crash, said Freddy Sergio Diaz, 46, was driving a 26-foot Contender boat around 8 p.m. when it hit the navigational aid off Tavernier, a community in the Upper Keys between Key Largo and Islamorada.
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He was ejected from the vessel when the boat hit the marker, FWC spokeswoman Arielle Callender. Parmedics took him to a Keys hospital, where he died.
Four other people were on board and were not seriously injured, according to the FWC.
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