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Originally Posted by Skip
"...So you predict that if speed limits had been enacted prior to the collision, the Littlefields would have immediately sold their performance boat...OK...So I predict thay would have then replaced it with a 32 to 40 foot range Carver style behemoth cruiser...Now place them in that same craft at 28 MPH and replay the same scenario. You still have the same horrific outcome...."
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Actually, the outcome would have been much better for Littlefield (and for all boaters with oversized craft).
Littlefield "Felt a bump" when his
4½ ton boat crushed the Hartman's small boat — killing
one.
With his new
14-ton Carver 40, AND totally unaware, he would have been reading
Citizen headlines of a fiberglass and vinyl "debris field" found by boaters near Meredith — and of a family that didn't return home that night.
You don't have the
same horrific outcome at all. It's
worse.
Unfortunately, these accident headlines are replayed every weekend on inland lakes. Ask anyone well-versed in performance boating.