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09-02-2014, 08:38 AM
MARLOW — A legally blind Grady County man drowned Monday after a boating accident on a farm pond, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
About 6:25 p.m., Bruce Michael Mullen, 58, of Marlow, was riding a personal watercraft on a 90 acre farm pond in a pasture near Marlow. The watercraft struck a fence that was stretched across the pond and Mullen was knocked into the water and sunk below the surface, troopers said.
Grady County firefighters and the landowner found the body at the bottom of the pond in about 4 feet of water, troopers reported.
About 6:25 p.m., Bruce Michael Mullen, 58, of Marlow, was riding a personal watercraft on a 90 acre farm pond in a pasture near Marlow. The watercraft struck a fence that was stretched across the pond and Mullen was knocked into the water and sunk below the surface, troopers said.
Grady County firefighters and the landowner found the body at the bottom of the pond in about 4 feet of water, troopers reported.