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A Look at Boating Accident Statistics | Siben & Siben Long Island ...
Every year, the United States Coast Guard compiles information regarding boating accidents in the United States. These studies are very comprehensive and are based on accident reports filed by boaters who have been involved in boating accidents.
There are certain regulations that the USCG has set forth regarding the reporting of a boating accident. You must report the accident under the following conditions:
– A person dies...
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As weather warms it's time to adjust boating safety laws
“Alcohol use is the leading contributing factor in fatal boating accidents,” according to the U.S. Coast Guard’s 2010 recreational boating accident statistics, and while that fact is sobering enough, we should realize that Georgia remains one of the final holdouts with our boating under the influence laws where our state allows the operator of a boat to be more intoxicated and remain legal than what our law already considers someone drunk while driving on our state roads.
In the Peach State BUI (Boating Under The Influence) is deemed at 0.10 blood alcohol content, whereas on our roadways you are DUI (Driving Under The Influence) at the lower 0.08 BAC level. Couple the legality of allowing a boater to be in a more drunken stupor to the fact that a boat’s motion, vibration and engine noise as well as sun, wind and spray all make the effects of alcohol and drugs seem more intense.
Readers should also know that someone operating a boat with a BAC of more than 0.10 percent is 10 times more likely to die in a boating accident than someone driving a boat while sober. But it’s not just the person consuming excess amounts of alcohol that is in danger. Consider the bass fisherman looking for his lunker under a narrow bridge gap. What about that skier that has fallen and all you can see is their head bobbing with the waves, or that slow-moving pontoon easing out from behind a dock? BUI affects everyone on the water.
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