Tragedy has struck at a golf course less than 11 miles away from the host course of this week’s PGA Tour event.
An employee at the Golf Course at Terra Lago in Indio, Calif. is dead after the caged maintenance cart he was driving became submerged in a canal that runs through the 36-hole property.
Officers and firefighters responded to the course just after 2 p.m. on Monday. Upon pulling the cart from the canal, firefighters declared the man dead at the scene.
It is common for maintenance carts at golf courses to employ a cage in order to keep workers driving the course safe from errant golf balls.
Technical Rescue:rpt@3:02 p.m. 84000blk. Terra Lago Pkwy, Indio. 1 caged, maintenance golf cart submerged on its side in a canal, w/1 victim inside. FF's removed golf cart from the canal, victim perished at the scene. Indio PD and Riverside County Coroner investigating. #CanalIC pic.twitter.com/zNEY48zlI0
— CAL FIRE/Riverside County Fire Department (@CALFIRERRU) January 18, 2022
Indio Police public information officer Ben Guitron said preliminary information points to the man drowning as a result of an accident, but further information should become clearer once the coroner completes its investigation.
The name of the victim was not immediately released.
