The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is investigating a fatal boating collision on South Holston Lake.
Officials say a bass boat carrying two people struck a pillar of the Hwy. 421 bridge Saturday night. The collision resulted in the death of the passenger, 72 year-old Ronald Taylor of Virginia and left the operator with serious injuries.
The operator was airlifted to the hospital where his condition has not been released.
This incident marks the 20th boating-related fatality on Tennessee’s waterways in 2025.
