jeb2 Posted June 27, 2012 Posted June 27, 2012 Saw this while out fishing this morning on Beaver Lake here in NW Ark. Must have happened last night. Looks like it drove it straight in. Notice the glass and parts on the ledge above it. Busted chairs, some blood, not a pretty scene. Nothing on the local news about it so far. The lake is full of huge rock bluffs like that, some tower 100's of feet over the water. Never seen anyone hit one before, though. Quote
Super User Nitrofreak Posted June 27, 2012 Super User Posted June 27, 2012 Good bit of damage too!! Hope everyone is ok. Quote
scrutch Posted June 27, 2012 Posted June 27, 2012 Good bit of damage too!! Hope everyone is ok. I hope so too, but judging by the looks of it, probably not. Quote
GoTakeANap Posted June 27, 2012 Posted June 27, 2012 wow whoever it was hit the wall pretty hard. keep us updated if you hear anything on the news about it. Quote
Super User AK-Jax86 Posted June 28, 2012 Super User Posted June 28, 2012 d**n I don't understand how you crash into a wall on the water in a boat Quote
Super User slonezp Posted June 28, 2012 Super User Posted June 28, 2012 Wonder if alcohol was involved. We had 2 incidents locally this past weekend. During a tourney, a guy flipped a brand spankin new 60k Ranger on my home lake in an area called the washtub. A stretch of river abut 150 yards wide with tons of boat traffic and no speed limit. The water hits the seawalls and bounces back and forth causing waves hitting you from 360 degrees. Another incident on Lake Michigan, a 47 foot yacht hit a breakwall (cement and stone walls used to prevent wave from crashing on the shore) causing a coast guard rescue and the captain was cited with DUI. http://www.wgntv.com/news/wgntv-7-rescued-after-boat-hits-breakwall-near-calumet-beach-20120625,0,2064637.story Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted June 28, 2012 Global Moderator Posted June 28, 2012 Wow, they must have been cruising pretty fast to cause that much damage to that boat. Wonder if it was dark out? It's amazing how hard those big walls can be to see when it's dark, they almost look like a bank of clouds in the dark. That's not a forgiving structure to crash into for sure! Quote
BigMoneyGrip Posted June 28, 2012 Posted June 28, 2012 Were there any bodies on the bottom? Hitting a wall of rock head on ain't good. Quote
dale.m Posted June 28, 2012 Posted June 28, 2012 Hope they are ok! On a lighter note.....did you flip a jig in around the boat? Looks like some good cover Quote
Super User Long Mike Posted June 28, 2012 Super User Posted June 28, 2012 It's a party boat, not a Bass boat, so you can pretty much guarantee that alcohol was involved. Quote
jeb2 Posted June 28, 2012 Author Posted June 28, 2012 Nobody was hurt too badly, it seems. Sure were lucky! http://5newsonline.com/2012/06/27/prairie-creek-boat-crash/ Quote
jeb2 Posted June 28, 2012 Author Posted June 28, 2012 Hope they are ok! On a lighter note.....did you flip a jig in around the boat? Looks like some good cover No, too afraid I'd pull up a body. Quote
Super User Bankbeater Posted June 28, 2012 Super User Posted June 28, 2012 Had something like that happen years ago on Bull Shoals. A boat was flying along at night, and the driver didn't know that there was a bend in the lake. I don't remember if anyone was hurt or not. Quote
Super User Nitrofreak Posted June 28, 2012 Super User Posted June 28, 2012 Definatly good news to see all were released, by the way good job sending the pics in and thanx for the update. Quote
Fishing Cowgirl Posted June 28, 2012 Posted June 28, 2012 Wow.. That's a hard way to find out a boat doesn't have brakes. Glad they weren't hurt too badly. Quote
scrutch Posted June 28, 2012 Posted June 28, 2012 Just about as lucky as four people can be at the same time. Quote
Super User Nitrofreak Posted June 29, 2012 Super User Posted June 29, 2012 Wow.. That's a hard way to find out a boat doesn't have brakes. Glad they weren't hurt too badly. That's not true, mine breaks all the time, oh sorry, "brakes" all the time. 1 Quote
11justin22 Posted June 29, 2012 Posted June 29, 2012 Wow! I must have missed this on the news. What bluff is that on? Horshoe Bend? Quote
jeb2 Posted June 30, 2012 Author Posted June 30, 2012 On the Coose Hollow side of the point between that cove and PC Marina. Quote
donovanl12 Posted June 30, 2012 Posted June 30, 2012 That's horrible! Glad to hear they were ok Quote
BassThumb Posted July 1, 2012 Posted July 1, 2012 Just imagine if somebody was riding in those seats in the bow of the boat. WIth 4 people aboard, I bet somebody was up there. If I weren't the driver, that's where I would be. Quote
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