CRYSTAL BEACH (February 9, 2012)--A 3-year-old boy died Thursday after a heavy driftwood log rolled down a sand dune and crushed him at a beach on the Texas Gulf Coast.
A teenage girl was injured by the log, which Galveston County sheriff's Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo said was about 3 feet long and 2 feet in diameter and weighed several hundred pounds.
The boy's family was spending a day at the Crystal Beach seashore Thursday afternoon when the sand supporting the log was disturbed and gave way.
The log killed LaShaun Lovejoy Huff.
The teenage girl who was hurt was taken to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston for treatment of a crushing injury to her arm and shoulder.
