Recent Posts in Boating Accident Category
Posted on Aug 21, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Suffolk County, New York police are continuing their investigation of a drowning of a woman who was aboard a sinking boat in Port Jefferson. Reports say that 71-year-old Georgia Johnson, of Patchogue ...
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Posted on Aug 14, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A woman on a whitewater rafting trip drowned earlier this month when the raft she was in flipped in a class III rapid on the New River Gorge National River, reports say. The woman, Judy Brown, of ...
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Posted on Jul 24, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A man died recently while swimming in the Kaweah River in Sequoia National Park recently, reports say. The man, a 45-year-old unidentified man from the Los Angeles area, was riding the river on an ...
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Posted on Jun 8, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers arrested a Stover, MO couple in Camden County in after reports say they filed a false report of a drowning incident on the Missouri River at Franklin Island in ...
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Posted on May 24, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
The parents of a child who drowned in an Indio, CA pool could face criminal charges, reports say. Although neither the family nor the deceased child have been identified by police yet, reports say ...
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Posted on May 21, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A Maryland man was honored as a hero recently for jumping into a creek to save a boy from drowning. The man, Jack Severn, 71, of New Market, MD, was given a Heroism Medal from the Marine Corps League ...
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Posted on Mar 27, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
A man drowned late last year in Lake Travis while parting on the water on what's referred to as a "party barge." The accident, which occurred in the water off of Hi Line Drive in Hudson Bend near ...
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Posted on Jan 1, 2011 By Houston Personal Injury Attorney
Reports say that passengers on the cruise ship Norwegian Jade, a part of the Norwegian Cruise Lines fleet, became ill on a sailing early this year. Passengers reported several shipmates were sickened ...
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Posted on Aug 21, 2010 By Injury Attorney
A 24-year-old commercial fishing vessel skipper died when he got caught in a net and pulled into a deck winch. The recent incident occurred while a load of salmon was being pulled in while the skipper ...
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Posted on Aug 20, 2010 By Injury Attorney
One fisherman died after another fishing boat rear-ended his boat last month, throwing him into the Cal-Sag Channel in Illinois, reports say. The Orland Park man, whose name was not released, drowned ...
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Posted on Aug 19, 2010 By Personal Injury Lawyer
A commercial fishing skipper's decision to make a mayday call moments before the boat sank probably saved the lives of his crew, but also may have cost him his own life. Reports say that Captain ...
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Posted on Aug 16, 2010 By Personal Injury Attorney
A crew member of a Qatargas time-chartered vessel died from injuries he sustained while boarding a service launch from the ship on which he had been working. The worker, who had just completed his ...
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