Longtime York PA Lawyer Bob Strickler ID’d As Victim In Saturday Fatal Florida Keys Boat Crash

BIG PINE KEY, FL. (THECOUNT) — Longtime York County, PA attorney, Robert Mark Strickler, has been identified as the victim in a Saturday Key West, FL boating accident.

“Bob” Strickler, 83, was out fishing with another man on Saturday in the Florida Keys when he was killed after a boat on autopilot ran into their anchored vessel, according to authorities.

Officials say, a boat carrying two men from New York was traveling west on autopilot when it ran into Strickler’s fishing boat.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said in a news release that the other man who operated the anchored fishing boat sustained minor injuries in the crash Friday afternoon near Big Pine Key, reports WPXI.

The crash happened during daylight, authorities said. But the speed at which the boat traveled was not clear.

According to CGA Law Firm, Strickler received his undergraduate degree from Dickinson College and his Juris Doctorate from the Dickinson School of Law. From 1963 to 1966, Attorney Strickler was a legal officer in the United States Air Force, stationed in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was a member of the Pennsylvania and York County Bar Associations. He served as general counsel for the York County Solid Waste and Refuse Authority and represented the Authority since it was formed in 1971.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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Geo quick facts: Big Pine Key is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Monroe County, Florida, United States, on an island of the same name in the Florida Keys. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 5,032 – Wikipedia.