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Posted: May 25, 2024 - 11:04 am


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3 young people in their 20's are dead and others still in hospital. A speedboat crashed into a fishing boat. Just terrible and sad news.

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDknYw910bk[/YOUTUBE]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fata...gston-1.7211753

Names of victims released

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/community-mourns-...n-ont-1.6900291

Video of crash site

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.4231084

The victims remembered

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/video/c2928546-co...dium%3Dsharebar



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Posted: May 25, 2024 - 11:11 am


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Best article from cottagers who knew the owner of the speedboat

https://www.frontenacnews.ca/south-frontena...was-foreseeable

“I knew there was a fishing boat, filled with young kids just by the far shore. They had been there for quite a while, playing country music, partying, and just floating between two docks. I could see the lights of their phones, and maybe the light of a speaker. When I heard the engine rev up from the red boat, I thought that since it was dark, the boat would take the centre path through the strait,” he said.

But Tony worried that the red boat might hug the far shore, because that was something the boat owner had developed a habit of doing.

“He had been working on this for four years, since he started running the boat on the lake. Those speed boats can’t really turn, so he would like to come through as close to the shore as possible in order to cut a curving path at full speed and go all the way to his cottage after coming into Buck Bay. He kept starting to throttle up his engine earlier and earlier in order to come through at higher and higher speeds,” he said.

On this night, when Tony Hammond realised that the red boat was at full throttle, travelling what he estimates was 60-70 miles per hour along the far shore, and that it was hugging the shore even though at 9:35 pm it was dark on the lake, he leaned over the edge of his porch, and waited, in pure dread.

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Posted: May 25, 2024 - 11:22 am


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[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7q24l-bLLM[/YOUTUBE]

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Posted: May 25, 2024 - 12:13 pm


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A speedboat after dark doing 70 in a no wake zone Really And not the first time


Condolences to to the families of lost love ones


this was so preventable

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Posted: May 25, 2024 - 12:26 pm


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My condolences to the family of these young people .

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Posted: May 25, 2024 - 02:27 pm


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He should have the book thrown at him never to drive or own a boat again.

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Posted: May 25, 2024 - 03:10 pm


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Sad all around...

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Posted: May 25, 2024 - 03:22 pm


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It’s like someone wrote a horror story.
No wake zone with a speed boat rocketing by.
Kids at 9:30 floating in a boat with no boat lights on.

Wreckless and forgetful costs lives.

What a horrible even.

My heart goes out to the families destroyed.

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Posted: May 25, 2024 - 03:55 pm


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QUOTE (Disco @ May 25, 2024 - 04:22 pm)


My heart goes out to the families destroyed.

Sadly that is an all too accurate description of the outcome. Parents and other family members never 'get over' those tragic events. I hope there will be manslaughter charges forthcoming.

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Posted: May 26, 2024 - 08:10 am


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Horrific accident my condolences to the families and friends. Very sad.. I know the lake and forever a dark cloud over this area.

As others have mentioned, completely preventable. Going way too fast in the dark in a no wake zone.

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Posted: May 26, 2024 - 07:00 pm


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What a stupid accident.....if there are no charges laid here....I would like to know why.....what a shame.

Also when are we going to change the law to make the wearing of a life jacket mandatory....it may not have prevented death unless there is drowning but I think it's high time that it becomes mandatory. I would not even thing of getting onto a boat without one on.

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Posted: May 27, 2024 - 10:40 am


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QUOTE (longfish @ May 26, 2024 - 07:00 pm)
What a stupid accident.....if there are no charges laid here....I would like to know why.....what a shame.

Also when are we going to change the law to make the wearing of a life jacket mandatory....it may not have prevented death unless there is drowning but I think it's high time that it becomes mandatory. I would not even thing of getting onto a boat without one on.

Arnie

I bet charges will be laid. Investigation first.
Only issue I see from that of what the kids were doing is they didn’t have and boat marker lights on. Pretty sure the now wake zone and speed will warrant charges.

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Posted: May 27, 2024 - 11:26 am


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QUOTE (Disco @ May 27, 2024 - 10:40 am)
QUOTE (longfish @ May 26, 2024 - 07:00 pm)
What a stupid accident.....if there are no charges laid here....I would like to know why.....what a shame.

Also when are we going to change the law to make the wearing of a life jacket mandatory....it may not have prevented death unless there is drowning but I think it's high time that it becomes mandatory. I would not even thing of getting onto a boat without one on.

Arnie

I bet charges will be laid. Investigation first.
Only issue I see from that of what the kids were doing is they didn’t have and boat marker lights on. Pretty sure the now wake zone and speed will warrant charges.

You can add to that, endangering children's lives, this dipsh!t had 2 children on board his death machine, his daughter 11 and her friend 10 years old. I sure hope the judge 'brings down the f...king hammer hard" on this ahole and he never sees the light of day again. Case closed throw away the key!

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Posted: May 27, 2024 - 11:11 pm


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QUOTE (Disco @ May 27, 2024 - 10:40 am)
QUOTE (longfish @ May 26, 2024 - 07:00 pm)
What a stupid accident.....if there are no charges laid here....I would like to know why.....what a shame.

Also when are we going to change the law to make the wearing of a life jacket mandatory....it may not have prevented death unless there is drowning but I think it's high time that it becomes mandatory. I would not even thing of getting onto a boat without one on.

Arnie

I bet charges will be laid. Investigation first.
Only issue I see from that of what the kids were doing is they didn’t have and boat marker lights on. Pretty sure the now wake zone and speed will warrant charges.

Bang on Disco.

Arnie

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Posted: May 30, 2024 - 08:39 pm


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Youth is wasted on the young

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