Threaded 7-6-06
07-06-2006, 10:19 PM
MY FRIENDS FIRST WEEKEND OUT
http://http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=local&id=4331484
July 3, 2006 - An accident on the water Monday killed a young girl and injured three adults near Temperance Flat at Millerton Lake.
The girl was identified as 6-year-old Crystal Parker. An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday.
Broken nearly in two, witnesses say the boat was going at high speeds moments before it crashed.
Bill Asselin was one of the first people to come upon the wreckage, and saw people waving for help. "There was two on the boat, a man and his little daughter, and he was just screaming, 'my daughter, she's dying, she's dead,' you know, and stuff like that....I looked at her right away, and in my experience, I knew she was dead. She was dead already," he said.
With the help of Asselin and another boat, emergency crews rushed Parker's father and two other adults to the hospital with moderate injuries. Officials say none of the boaters were wearing life jackets.
The group was from Southern California. The State Department of Parks and Recreation is investigating whether the boat hit something that may have been hidden below the surface.
It's a theory one experienced boater agrees with after he saw the wreckage himself.
"Yah, I think he was going faster than 35," said Brandon Rodriguez. "Just from the looks of it, you'd have to be going 55, 60 miles an hour for something like that to happen. And to hit something at that speed and that impact, to cause that much damage...It'd have to be pretty large."
It was a busy holiday weekend out on Millerton Lake, and officials say the accident happened in an area fairly popular with boaters.http://a.abclocal.go.com/images/kfsn/cms_exf_2005/news/local/kfsn_070306_boatax200.jpg
http://http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=local&id=4331484
July 3, 2006 - An accident on the water Monday killed a young girl and injured three adults near Temperance Flat at Millerton Lake.
The girl was identified as 6-year-old Crystal Parker. An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday.
Broken nearly in two, witnesses say the boat was going at high speeds moments before it crashed.
Bill Asselin was one of the first people to come upon the wreckage, and saw people waving for help. "There was two on the boat, a man and his little daughter, and he was just screaming, 'my daughter, she's dying, she's dead,' you know, and stuff like that....I looked at her right away, and in my experience, I knew she was dead. She was dead already," he said.
With the help of Asselin and another boat, emergency crews rushed Parker's father and two other adults to the hospital with moderate injuries. Officials say none of the boaters were wearing life jackets.
The group was from Southern California. The State Department of Parks and Recreation is investigating whether the boat hit something that may have been hidden below the surface.
It's a theory one experienced boater agrees with after he saw the wreckage himself.
"Yah, I think he was going faster than 35," said Brandon Rodriguez. "Just from the looks of it, you'd have to be going 55, 60 miles an hour for something like that to happen. And to hit something at that speed and that impact, to cause that much damage...It'd have to be pretty large."
It was a busy holiday weekend out on Millerton Lake, and officials say the accident happened in an area fairly popular with boaters.http://a.abclocal.go.com/images/kfsn/cms_exf_2005/news/local/kfsn_070306_boatax200.jpg