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Originally Posted by elchase
I guess can understand the desire of those who want to boat at unlimited speeds to see this stuff stifled. It is pretty devastating to see how many high-speed boating collisions we have every year and how many people usually die in them. I can see why some want to keep me limited to five posts per day so information like this is not seen. But I can’t understand the argument that this is less relevant in a Speed Limit thread than someone’s new prop.
FIVE dead and nine injured when this guy “ slammed into a docked tug boat”; http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stori...-crash-041309/ |
Not sure who is being stifled here. People are choosing to ignore you on their own.
And from the article, I am not sure where this accident is directly related to speed:
"Joy Hill, spokeswoman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said investigators are looking at several factors including speed, capacity of the boat, lighting and whether people were drinking".
Of course there are horrible boating accidents that happen all across our country. No one here has disputed that. But the relevance of these accidents, especially those accidents which were not directly related to excessive speed (in excess of 45/25), is being disputed.