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Coast Guard says lights not needed on jetty where Jose Fernandez died in boat crash

The Coast Guard on Thursday rejected calls for warning lights on the South Beach jetty where Marlins star Jose Fernandez crashed his boat on a drunken early-morning trip last year that killed him and two passengers.

“The Captain of the Port of Miami has determined the existing aids that mark safe navigation through the channel, which include color coded lighted buoys and lighted range markers, to be sufficient,” the Coast Guard’s Miami Beach station said in a press release. “This determination was endorsed the Coast Guard's Seventh District commander.”

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