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LANGSTON, Okla. (KFOR) – A 55-year-old Langston, Okla., man drowned in a Langston City Lake on Wednesday.
James Harding Sr. drowned after his 1977 Lowe Open Motor Boat capsized, according to an Oklahoma Highway Patrol news release.
Harding and a passenger were in the motor boat, heading north on the lake, when at approximately 10:30 a.m. the boat capsized “due to being overweight,” the news release states.
Harding was pronounced dead at the scene.
The passenger, a 31-year-old Midwest City man, was not injured.
The weather was windy when the boat capsized, according to the news release.
