Closeup of damage to the boat that crashed into a tree on the banks of the Merrimack River near the Rourke Bridge on Sunday afternoon. SUN/Robert Mills
By Robert Mills, rmills@lowellsun.com
Updated: AUGUST 31, 2015
LOWELL, MASS.
A 48-year-old Lowell man and his 3-year-old son were rescued from the banks of the Merrimack River by fellow boaters after the man reportedly lost steering in his boat and struck a tree on the bank of the river Sunday.
Emergency crews were called to the river about 5:30 p.m., for a report that a boat had crashed in the area of the Rourke Bridge.
Firefighters put a rescue boat in the water, but the man and his son were already being brought back to shore by Jim and Lisa Payne of Westford.
Ivan Silva, a friend of the man driving the crashed boat, declined to identify the driver but said he is a 48-year-old Lowell man who was with his 3-year-old son.
Silva said the group of friends was hanging out at a beach upriver and that the man had gone downriver to give another a friend a ride home. Silva said his friend told him he lost steering in the boat as he was heading back.
Silva said his friend suffered a badly broken nose but was otherwise OK, and that his son was unhurt.
The Paynes initially declined to comment when contacted at the Rourke Brothers' Boat Ramp in Lowell, where they brought the injured man and his son.
The father was bleeding from the face as he was loaded into a Trinity EMS ambulance that took both him and his son to Lowell General Hospital from the boat ramp.
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Body Found in Car After Crash Off Malibu Canyon Road
The man's body was found in a crumpled blue car about 250 feet down the side of the twisting canyon road
By Jonathan Lloyd and Angie Crouch
Search and rescue crews worked to extract the body of a man who died after his car went over the edge of Malibu Canyon. Angie Crouch reports for the NBC4 News at 5 and 6 p.m. on Aug. 28, 2015. (Published Friday, Aug. 28, 2015)
Updated at 3:35 AM PDT on Saturday, Aug 29, 2015
The body of a man was found inside a vehicle that crashed Thursday night about 250 feet down the side of Malibu Canyon Road.
He was identified as Oscar Alvarez of La Canada Flintridge, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. He died on his 35th birthday.
The difficult search operation in rugged, steep terrain led authorities to what appeared to be a blue BMW, which tumbled about 250 feet down the cliff and landed next to a rusted out vehicle that was involved in a much earlier crash on the winding road around 7 p.m.
A team of about eight scaled down the hillside to cut the man's body from the crumpled vehicle Friday.
Driver Killed in Canyon Road Crash 
The body of a man was found inside a vehicle that crashed Thursday Aug. 27, 2015 about 250 feet down the side of Malibu Canyon Road. Angie Crouch reports for the NBC4 News at Noon on Friday Aug. 28, 2015. (Published Friday, Aug. 28, 2015)
"They brought a lot of gear over the side," said David Katz, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. "It's extremely hot over the side, to they're contending, not only with the heat, but with very, very dangerous terrain."
A helicopter crew airlifted Alvarez's remains and recovery personnel from the canyon.
"The terrain was very loose and hard to stand up," said Stephen Marshall with the LA County Sheriff's Department's Search and Rescue Team. "The car was moving so we had to tie the car down before we could do anything."
Authorities were notified about the crash by the vehicle's post-crash alert system through the Sirius XM satellite radio service.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
Southern California Images in the News 
SLIDESHOW: Heavy flooding in the Lowcountry Monday
Posted: August 31, 2015
By Suzelle Santos
By Live 5 News Web Staff
Aug 31, 2015 09:37 AM
The city of Charleston saw 6.43 inches in 6 hours Monday, making it the 5th wettest day ever recorded in the city.
The old record for rainfall in Charleston on Aug. 31 was set in 2006, when 2.61 inches of rain were recorded. The highest daily rainfall amount recorded in the month of August for Charleston is 7.88 inches set on Aug. 11, 1940, according to Meteorologist Justin Lock.
Shortly after 4 p.m., several streets remained closed in downtown Charleston, according to Charleston Police spokesman Charles Francis:
Barre and Gadsden Streets closed from Bennett to Bull Streets
Wentworth and Barre
Ashley and Bennett
Ashley and Tradd
Flash flood warnings issued Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester Counties Counties were canceled at 10 a.m Monday. The flood advisory remained through 11:30 and the coastal flood advisory for Charleston, coastal Colleton, Beaufort and coastal Jasper Counties lasted until noon.
At 8:56 a.m., minutes before a flash flood warning was set to expire, Charleston County Consolidated Dispatch reported several road closures and water entering homes in parts of North Charleston.
Service from CARTA DASH Trolleys was temporarily suspended, CARTA says.
Among the areas experiencing flooding were downtown Charleston, North Charleston, Mount Pleasant, Goose Creek, Hanahan, the Naval Weapons Station Charleston and Magnolia Gardens.
The weather service reminded motorists to "Turn Around, Don't Drown" when encountering flooded roads. In a tweet to its followers, the City of North Charleston said: "Pro tip: Your car isn't a boat, don't drive through standing water."
Many roads across the Lowcountry were impassible because of flooding.
Dispatch also said the intersection of Rivers Avenue and Otranto Road in North Charleston were impassible. There were also reports of standing water on Crossroads Dr. Northwoods Boulevard up to the Holiday Inn was closed as well, dispatch said. The intersection of Greenridge Road and Crossroads Drive was also closed to traffic.
Officials say King Tides could impact the Charleston area through Wednesday.
They cause the tide to be a lot higher than normal during new full moons and can cause flooding, especially on rainy days.
