MickinMO Posted May 30, 2018 Posted May 30, 2018 Water Patrol now saying they are unsure who was driving the boat when it hit a rock bluff. This just seems weird. https://www.mshp.dps.missouri.gov/WP03/AccidentDetailsAction?ACC_RPT_NUM=180294662
fishinwrench Posted May 30, 2018 Posted May 30, 2018 Must have been one of the dead guys. Too bad for the lawyers, hu?
tjm Posted May 30, 2018 Posted May 30, 2018 Looks to me like it would be really hard to prove who drove the boat with no witness, barring a confession. So if the guy confesses to being passed out and only coming to in the water, no idea who was driving, etc. the arrest for being drunk at the scene supports his story? How is the woman that was sent to Mercy doing? Recovering to tell her story or..? Who did the boat belong to? It would be reasonable to assume the owner drove, wouldn't it? MickinMO 1
fishinwrench Posted May 30, 2018 Posted May 30, 2018 17 minutes ago, tjm said: How is the woman that was sent to Mercy doing? Recovering to tell her story or..? Her story is inadmissable. She was drunk. If the state is going to claim that a person with .08% BAC is unfit to legally do anything...then they certainly can't legally be a witness. This case should get thrown out. MickinMO 1
tjm Posted May 30, 2018 Posted May 30, 2018 With all those "unknowns " in that update it appears that it is being thrown out. or just dropped. I guess liability for wrongful death would be on the boat owner?
fishinwrench Posted May 30, 2018 Posted May 30, 2018 Who's to say that there wasn't yet another person on board, a sober person who offered to drive them home? Nobody knew his name.
MickinMO Posted May 30, 2018 Author Posted May 30, 2018 Since there are no local investigative journalists left we may never know more about this. The whole story doesn't add up. He gets back in the boat and paddles a severely damaged runabout back across the channel? Who owned the boat might offer a clue to who could have been driving or was more likely to be driving. Maybe they were at Dicks Halfway and eye witnesses from there put a different driver at the helm? Maybe they have interviewed others friends who said that this kid never drove the boat. I can remember my college days and there was always that guy that was never allowed to run the boat no matter what.
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