An 18-year-old Fountain Valley man has died in a snowboarding accident in Lake Tahoe, according to a news report.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said that a friend found Wyatt James Colvard unconscious on the slopes at Heavenly Resort in Lake Tahoe. The ski patrol transported Colvard down the mountain where paramedics attempted to resuscitate him; he died at the scene.
Authorities say an investigation into the cause of the fatal accident is ongoing; an autopsy has revealed that he died from blunt force trauma but investigators said they did not know whether he hit a rock, tree or pole to cause the fatal injuries.
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