Woman Killed When Tube Hits Tree

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GENEVA, Fla. -- A woman died in a boating accident on the waters of Mullet Lake Park on Saturday.

Mullet Lake Park is in Seminole County near Geneva.

Police said 45-year-old Teresa Fulton and another person were in an inner tube being pulled by a boat when boat went around a corner and the tube slammed into a tree.

The other man on the boat suffered minor injuries.

Police said Fulton's husband was driving the boat. She was taken to Mullet Lake Park after the accident and then to Central Florida Regional Hospital.

Fulton, a mother of three from Chuluota, died at the hospital.

Witnesses said they think the inner tube was cut by the propeller when it came loose.

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A later report says the boat was approaching a sharp curve on a narrow waterway and had to swerve to the left to avoid another boat coming the other way; this caused the tube to be "whipped" onto land, striking a tree.