Two dead in Volusia County in separate incidents: Drowning, car crash

Two people lost their lives in separate incidents in Volusia County including a man on a boat who drowned after he fell off the vessel, officials said.

The boating accident happened in Deltona and claimed the life of Richard Barker, 67, said Volusia County sheriff's investigators.

Barker was found floating facedown in Theresa Lake around 9 a.m. Sunday.

He had taken his pontoon boat out for a ride Saturday afternoon, said Volusia County sheriff's spokeswoman Laura Williams.

Deputies and Deltona firefighters responded to the lake after neighbors reported seeing the body in the water about 30 yards from shore, Williams said.

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Barker had taken his pontoon boat out alone Saturday sometime between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. A neighbor told deputies he later saw the pontoon boat floating near his property Saturday evening as it has done in the past so he didn't think anything was wrong, Williams said.

Deputies do not suspect foul play and evidence suggests Barker was drinking, sheriff's investigators said.

Car crash in Edgewater claims life of woman, 52

The second death occurred on Thursday in a crash that happened at 7 p.m. in Edgewater, police said.

At the scene of the crash in the 300 block of west Marion Avenue, police discovered that Rhonda Finelli, 52, of Edgewater, had been killed in the crash, investigators said.

Another person involved in the crash, Michael Lyons, who reported the accident, was arrested for not having a driver's license, police said.

Edgewater police said the crash remains under investigation.

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Boater drinking on a boat falls into Deltona lake and drowns