Officials: Driver became disoriented before boat crash
ANYONE INSIDE AND THEY ARE
STILL INVESTIGATING.
>>> TWO PEOPLE ARE RECOVERING
THIS MORNING AFTER A BOATING
ACCIDENT ON FALLS LAKE.
THEY ARE BOTH EXPECTED TO BE
OKAY.
>> THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED NEAR
THE BEAVER DAM ACCESS POINT OF
CREEDMORE ROAD.
NIA HARDEN IS LIVE THERE.
THIS IS HAPPEN WHEN SO MANY
PEOPLE ARE PLANNING TO BE OUT
ON THE WATER TODAY, NIA?
>> WE TALKED ABOUT HOW BUSY
IT'S GOING TO BE.
YOU CAN SEE RIGHT OVER HERE
THEY JUST OPENED UP THE GATES.
THEY WERE NOT GOING TO OPEN
UNTIL 7:30.
THEY JUST TOLD ME THAT THEY HAD
TO CHANGE THEIR PLANS.
WHAT WE TOLD ABOUT YESTERDAY'S
BOATING ACCIDENT IS IT HAPPENED
BACK HERE BEHIND ME AND WE ARE
BEING TOLD RIGHT NOW THAT
INVESTIGATORS ARE STILL HOPING
TO TALK TO THE TWO PEOPLE WHO
WERE INJURED FROM THAT ACCIDENT
YESTERDAY.
INVESTIGATORS SAY THAT THERE
WERE THREE PEOPLE, IT THOUGH,
WHO WERE ON AN 18-FOOT BOAT.
THE DRIVER BECAME DISORIENTED
AND CRASHED INTO THE DAM OFF
FALLS LAKE.
MULTIPLE AGENCIES WERE CALLED
OUT TO ASSIST IN THE RESCUE.
THOSE TWO PEOPLE WHO WERE
RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL, THEY
ARE EXPECTED TO BE OKAY BUT THE
THIRD PERSON, WE'RE TOLD, WAS
NOT INJURED.
IT IS UNCLEAR WHAT CAUSED THE
DRIVER TO ACTUALLY CRASHED.
BUT THE CHIEF EMS PERSON WHO
WAS ON THE SCENE, HE ACTUALLY
TELLS US THAT HE WANTS TO MAKE
SURE THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE HEADED
OUT TO THE WATER TODAY, THEY
NEED TO KNOW THEIR SURROUNDINGS
AND THEY NEED TO KNOW WHERE