I find this inarguable. If Mr. or Mrs. O’Leary is guilty of a crime, he or she should pay whatever penalty the law designates.
It’s so boring that statements of tautologies are “news.”
Pretty straightforward who was at fault. If Oleary’s Boat struck the other boat on the port side and the other boat DID have running lights on it’s a slam dunk.
His brother’s boat did not have lights on and fled the scene.
Good luck with that.
However, if the wife was in the least bit intoxicated ...manslaughter.
O’Leary’s wife passed a DUI test. O’Leary’s state that the 13 passenger boat did not have running lights on and then fled the scene.
Except the boat they struck apparently had no running lights, and no lights on at all in the dead of night.
It’ll be interesting to see what the investigation shows. The other boat’s status hasn’t been clearly defined.
I’m assuming she was underway IF it indeed left the scene. If she had been anchored then only require 1 all around white light (assuming smaller vessel.
I could easily see someone overlooking a single white light on a small anchored vessel if they were distracted.
Admiralty claims are always interesting to suss out.
Note that Kevin O’Leary is also a Canadian “Trump-style” conservative - brash, unapologetic, & outspoken - so he’s got LOTS of leftist enemies up here just looking to smear him ... bear that in mind
He’s also fully cooperated with the police, something the guilty don’t usually do ... the cops will sort it out
That being said, O’Leary is rich - really rich, like over $100 million - and if I had that kind of money, I’d definitely be spending a couple thousand on a good radar system if I did any boat travel at night
Cheaping out on personal safety is idiotic
What happened to Mrs. O’Leary’s cow?
I hope he has a very high umbrella limit, this is going to cost him.
Claiming that the boat they’d rammed “fled the scene” is rather disingenuous, as if a boat with a fatality aboard had something to hide. How would they know fleeing from their blasting into and through it, in the dark?
If the stricken boat with the fatality aboard had thought to try to get to medical care more quickly, what would this mean?
Casting aspersions upon the owners of the boat they’d rammed? Sounds lawyered up to me, that or they’re just assholes.