Posted on 08/15/2023 9:41:59 AM PDT by V_TWIN
KENANSVILLE, Fla. - Thirteen people were injured in an airboat crash at Wild Florida Airboats and Gator Park on Monday, a spokesperson from the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed to FOX 35 News.
There were 30 people onboard the airboat – 28 passengers and two operators, said a spokesperson for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Officials said two people were transported via medevac to local hospitals after two airboats collided on Cypress Lake. The other passengers were transported to area hospitals for treatment. A spokesperson for Orlando Health said four people were taken to an Orlando Health facility in good condition and have been treated and released. The extent of their injuries is unknown at this time.
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PING!
Is this Cypress Gardens?.........I have been there............
Isn’t getting on an airboat in FL considered inherently dangerous?
According to the FWC, there have been 55 commercial airboat incidents between 2007 and 2017, resulting in two deaths and 130 injuries. A review of accident reports shows these collisions occurred due to “excessive speed and the operator not maintaining a proper look-out/inattention.”
There’s a reason they call it Wild Florida.
East of Cypress Gardens.....SE of Kissimmee
Okay, got it...............
Don’t know about air boat rides up in O-Town, but in the Glades, I’ve always wondered how there aren’t more accidents. Full throttle w/ no ability to see what’s in front of you at times seems thrilling, but dangerous.
An airplane engine complete with propeller mounted on the back of an oversized john boat 15 feet from your head hurdling through eye level Eelgrass at up to 60 mph?........what could go wrong?
Two crashing into each other for one. 😏
Florida is the lightning strike state capital of the US.
Complete with Sharks, water moccasins, sinkholes, rip currents, giant roaches, the state bird is the mosquito, hurricanes and the tornadoes that hurricanes spawn, crashing airboats and the latest....MALARIA.
And let’s not forget that RINO GOPe neocon deep state governor.
You bet it’s WILD Florida.......and I recommend no one ever go there.....much less move there
As a 73-year resident of Wild Florida, I second that.
Put the driver’s seats fifteen feet high and there will be less speeding and collisions.
Fing Boomhower
“Is this Cypress Gardens?.........I have been there............”
Went there when I was in Boot Camp in Orlando in 68’. Man, there were some drunk Sailors when we got back to base. Punishment followed.
I was there in ‘69 as a 14 year old paperboy with ten others who had earned a week trip to Florida from the Birmingham News.................
Wasn’t the latest...LEPROSY?
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