I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume alcohol was involved. Nothing good comes from night boating unless you’re a professional.
FOX News reports:
Former college soccer player killed in boat crash after group allegedly took vessel without authorizationA 24-year-old former student-athlete was killed in a boat crash in Massachusetts after she and her friends allegedly took a vessel without authorization before it crashed into a pier.Elizabeth “Lizzie” Dankert, a former soccer player at Union College, was killed after a recreational powerboat crashed into a pier near a runway at Logan International Airport around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to Massachusetts State Police.The fatal crash drew attention after authorities said the group allegedly took the boat without authorization hours after the boating club had closed for the night.Dankert and her friends were in Boston’s Seaport District that night when they allegedly boarded a Freedom Boat Club vessel after the club had closed, according to Lee Gordon, a spokesperson for Brunswick Corporation, which owns the club, told Fox News Digital.Freedom Boat Club operates as a membership-based alternative to boat ownership with hundreds of locations worldwide.”The vessel involved in the incident was taken without authorization and operated outside the knowledge and control of the Club, well after the Club had closed for the day,” Gordon said. “This activity did not occur within normal Club operations or established protocols governing access to and use of our vessels.”We are cooperating fully with all relevant authorities as they work to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident,” he added.Boston EMS said in a Facebook post that crews responded to the crash overnight in difficult conditions, including darkness and slippery shoreline rocks near the pier.EMTs worked with Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) fire crews to extricate four people from the rocks, including one critically injured patient.
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