Triple Fatality Boating Accident at MM47

[MickinMO]

KRCG-TV reporting that the driver has been arrested for BWI. 

[Krazo]

bad deal all around. 

[96 CHAMP]

Bad news, when are people going to learn??

[rps]

18 minutes ago, 96 CHAMP said:

Bad news, when are people going to learn??

People do not learn. I had a small high school class and one of us drove into the Arkansas river at speed. Sadly, he was not the last friend I lost to booze and alcohol.

No one thinks they will be the dead one. The operative words are "no one thinks ..."

[fishinwrench]

I'm gonna play devil's advocate here and claim that if he was capable of swimming to the nearest dock and calling for help then he wasn't THAT drunk. 

The authorities and the media love to blame everything they can on "being buzzed".   

I wanna know what kinda phone he was carrying, because I want one.  

[MoCarp]

its the "NOT THAT DRUNK " that got 3 people killed, weed/booze makes people have bad decisions that at times cost lives

[Flysmallie]

10 minutes ago, MoCarp said:

its the "NOT THAT DRUNK " that got 3 people killed, weed/booze makes people have bad decisions that at times cost lives

Agreed. Doesn’t matter how drunk you may or may not have been when you kill three friends. 

[fishinwrench]

Many times the "designated driver" isn't a very skilled boat operator, and doesn't know their way around the lake.    It isn't PC to say it....but I'd rather have a legally drunk guy at the helm that knows his way around and knows how to drive a boat, than someone that's only driving because he's the most sober one in the group.   

When you run into a bluff, but are sober enough to swim to safety and call for help, that pretty much tells me that inexperience likely played a bigger role in the accident than anything else.   I mean, if I'm so drunk that I run into a bluff then I'm incapable of walking, much less swimming to a dock, climbing up on it and completing a call on a wet cellphone.

[MickinMO]

44 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

I'm gonna play devil's advocate here and claim that if he was capable of swimming to the nearest dock and calling for help then he wasn't THAT drunk. 

The authorities and the media love to blame everything they can on "being buzzed".   

I wanna know what kinda phone he was carrying, because I want one.  

Saw one story that said a lake resident called 911 around 1:45am. The crash happened closer to midnight. So, he got back into the boat, probably tried to find his friends at first, then paddled to a dock, then found someone home and willing to answer the door. LE on scene some time between 1:45 and 4am. Another resident in the area said they were awakened by a loud sound around midnight, stuck there head out the back door, didn't hear or see anything and went back to bed.

[MickinMO]

7 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Many times the "designated driver" isn't a very skilled boat operator, and doesn't know their way around the lake. 

This is why I am curious to know whose boat it was. Was it the less drunk 5th wheel guy relegated to driving back home while the two couples are in back fooling around and boat guy just tells him to go towards the dark because dock lights will show you the shore? The LE report said that he paddled to shore, so that may lead me to think it was his boat as a novice wouldn't know where to find the paddle. On the other hand, it would not be easy to paddle a 18-20 runabout back to shore imo. Maybe something here doesn't add up