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One Killed In Boating Accident
Woman, 53, Dies After Runaway Motorboat Crashes Into Sailboat, Throwing Its Four Passengers Into The Connecticut River
By DAN UHLINGER, | DANIEL E. GOREN And LYNN DOAN Courant Staff Writers
July 9, 2007
OLD SAYBROOK - A runaway motorboat whose operator had fallen overboard crashed into a sailboat Sunday on the Connecticut River and killed one of four people out on an afternoon sail, officials said.
The motorboat operator, Gregory Siege, 44, of Madison, was arrested shortly after the 3:50 p.m. accident and charged with first-degree reckless operation of a vessel while intoxicated by alcohol and or drugs, officials said.
The four people aboard the sailboat were tossed into the river during the accident but were quickly taken out of the water. The three who survived were taken to a hospital in New Haven for treatment, said Dennis Schain, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Schain said the person who was killed was a 53-year-old woman.
Schain said Sunday night that he was not certain when the identities of the people involved could be released because next of kin were still being notified.
Schain said the accident was still under investigation, and the state's attorney's office in New London is assisting investigators.
After the accident, which occurred south of the Amtrak railroad bridge between Old Saybrook and Old Lyme, the unmanned motorboat continued speeding through the water as emergency officials tried to stop it.
A vessel from Sea Tow, a nearby marine company, was able to track the runaway motorboat, a 20-foot center console boat typically used for fishing, and stop it by snagging the propeller with a line, Schain said.
Officials said the river was crowded with boaters and that they were lucky more vessels were not involved in the accident.
"It was crazy. It was cuckoo," said Stephen Basil of Old Lyme, who saw boats zooming to the accident scene shortly after the crash.
Claire Kilbride of Meriden said she and her husband were traveling back to the Between the Bridges Marina, near the accident site, when they saw the motorboat going in circles.
"The police were all around it just waiting for it to run out of gas.
"It was very busy out there. There was a lot of traffic," she said.
Contact Dan Uhlinger at [email protected].
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http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc...uilder-navsrvc
Woman, 53, Dies After Runaway Motorboat Crashes Into Sailboat, Throwing Its Four Passengers Into The Connecticut River
By DAN UHLINGER, | DANIEL E. GOREN And LYNN DOAN Courant Staff Writers
July 9, 2007
OLD SAYBROOK - A runaway motorboat whose operator had fallen overboard crashed into a sailboat Sunday on the Connecticut River and killed one of four people out on an afternoon sail, officials said.
The motorboat operator, Gregory Siege, 44, of Madison, was arrested shortly after the 3:50 p.m. accident and charged with first-degree reckless operation of a vessel while intoxicated by alcohol and or drugs, officials said.
The four people aboard the sailboat were tossed into the river during the accident but were quickly taken out of the water. The three who survived were taken to a hospital in New Haven for treatment, said Dennis Schain, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Schain said the person who was killed was a 53-year-old woman.
Schain said Sunday night that he was not certain when the identities of the people involved could be released because next of kin were still being notified.
Schain said the accident was still under investigation, and the state's attorney's office in New London is assisting investigators.
After the accident, which occurred south of the Amtrak railroad bridge between Old Saybrook and Old Lyme, the unmanned motorboat continued speeding through the water as emergency officials tried to stop it.
A vessel from Sea Tow, a nearby marine company, was able to track the runaway motorboat, a 20-foot center console boat typically used for fishing, and stop it by snagging the propeller with a line, Schain said.
Officials said the river was crowded with boaters and that they were lucky more vessels were not involved in the accident.
"It was crazy. It was cuckoo," said Stephen Basil of Old Lyme, who saw boats zooming to the accident scene shortly after the crash.
Claire Kilbride of Meriden said she and her husband were traveling back to the Between the Bridges Marina, near the accident site, when they saw the motorboat going in circles.
"The police were all around it just waiting for it to run out of gas.
"It was very busy out there. There was a lot of traffic," she said.
Contact Dan Uhlinger at [email protected].
VIDEO CLIP
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc...uilder-navsrvc
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