Yes, driving a car is dangerous but look at the hours spent driving cars and accident frequency.
Compare that with the hours that the owners of the poker run boats involved in accidents have operating their boats and the results are significantly different. Although I cannot prove it I bet there are owners that operate there boat in a number of poker runs each year and possibly a few test runs and that's it. Maybe a total of 12-15 hours a year operating the boat, maybe less.
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Look, your logical mathematics have no place on an internet forum, mister!

I am glad to hear that people are OK,
I am not going to side with anything or anyone,
I just want to post a math lesson
For those questioning why not slowing down or stopping in the 10-15 seconds of the said incident,

@ 100mph ANY vehicle will travel over 1/4mile in 10 seconds---.277 actually
@ 100mph the distance is .41 miles in 15 seconds
@ 140mph the distance in 10 seconds is .388 miles!!!!
@ 140 in 15 seconds you will travel over a half mile! .583 actually.

now factor in anyone reaction time! 10 seconds? maybe for the best 5 seconds!
by the look of these videos none show more then a half mile of area.

Just get a perspective of TIME!! When your driving home and do a reaction to ANYTHING.

Sorry, got into an actuary statistics frame of mind.

Hope you came to your senses. Nobody needs factual crap on the internet.

LMAO!!!

Oh, I forgot, Truth does not have a place on the internet,,,,just listen to the news

http://raylarengineering.com/news.html

Looks like the boat hits the water at about 28 seconds into the vid. By the time the helo circles back at 1:30 (That's 62 seconds for anyone not into math) there are already 8 or 9 boats stopped there and 4 or 5 more on the way.

the video has an edit in it at 38 seconds so we really have no way of knowing how fast all those boats got there.....we do know however that the blue boat was well aware of what was going on and immediately went to help because they are already slowed down and turning around before the edit

and what goes on from 2:25 on (after another edit) certainly does not look too smart or safe especially on the part of the white/blue cat and the red cat especially considering there is a boat coming across in front of them that they basically seem to ignore

Another angle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYvL6uEMl6E

I see the flip at about 22 seconds in. and JT (blue boat) is already turning around at 30 seconds in. Can't ask for a quicker response than that.