MEC&F Expert Engineers : A boat collision with a tree on Devils Lake in northeastern North Dakota has killed a young woman and injured four other people, 3 critically. Speeding at night to blame for the crash

Monday, August 10, 2015

A boat collision with a tree on Devils Lake in northeastern North Dakota has killed a young woman and injured four other people, 3 critically. Speeding at night to blame for the crash







AUGUST 10, 2015

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. - 

A boat crash on Devils Lake in northeastern North Dakota has killed a Minnesota woman and injured four other people.

Ramsey County Sheriff Steve Nelson tells KZZY radio that the crash happened about 2:45 a.m. Sunday, when a boat struck a tree about 30 yards from shore while traveling about 30 mph. It happened in the Haybale Heights Campground area.

Twenty-six-year-old April Stenger, of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, was killed. 

Three other passengers in the boat were flown to a Grand Forks hospital, all with what Nelson described as critical injuries. Two were men from Devils Lake and the other a woman from Halstad, Minnesota.

The Grand Forks man driving the boat suffered injuries not considered to be life-threatening.

Speeding at 2:45 AM it seems to us to be a death wish or utterly stupid or somebody was on drugs or drunk.  Feel sorry for the young life that was cut short.