Accident » A motorboat collided with a houseboat near Dangling Rope Marina, officials reported.
By Erin Alberty aND Michael McFall
| The Salt Lake Tribune
Dive teams were searching the depths of Lake Powell Friday for two women missing after a fatal boat crash.
The driver of a motorboat may have been
distracted by children onboard when the boat was moving toward a
houseboat about 8:15 a.m. Thursday near the Dangling Rope Marina, Kane
County Sheriff’s Sgt. Alan Alldredge wrote in a press release.
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The motorboat driver veered at the last minute
but still struck the front corner of the houseboat, Alldredge wrote. The
motorboat overturned with 13 people on board, including seven adults
and six children, who were on a family trip from the Salt Lake City
area.
A 57-year-old woman on the motor boat died, and two other women, 22 and 29, were missing in the water.
Other individuals on the motorboat suffered minor injuries.
The male driver and an 11-year-old-girl were
flown to a hospital in Flagstaff, Ariz., where they were expected to
survive. Another person was transported by boat and then by ambulance to
the Page, Ariz. hospital.
All of the children were wearing life jackets. No one on the houseboat was injured.
The sheriff’s office was withholding the
victims’ names pending family notification. Most of the people on the
motorboat were members of the same family, Alldredge wrote.
The National Park Service, Utah State Parks and
Kane County Sheriff’s Office were working to find the missing victims
and to investigate the accident. A National Park Service dive team
planned to continue searching the crash scene Friday morning with remote
camera and sonar equipment.
The water is about 400 feet deep at the crash site, Alldredge wrote.
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