A teenager is missing and presumed dead and six others are injured after a boat ran aground in northwest Austin on Sunday night, authorities say.
A teenager is missing and presumed dead and six others are injured after a boat ran aground in northwest Austin on Sunday night, authorities said.
The boat, which had 7 people on it, ran aground off Lake Austin just after 6:10 p.m. about 13 miles northwest of downtown Austin,By shortly after 7 p.m. local time, the search for the missing teen had transitioned from a rescue to recovery effort,, adding that the event had been declared a “level-5 mass casualty incident,” referring to the number of victims and the scale of resources required to treat them.
The missing teenager is now being presumed dead, a spokesperson from the Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services confirmed.that the incident unfolded after a boat went over the wake of another boat, lost control and hit the bank of the lake, causing at least one person to be ejected from the vessel. It is unclear if the ejected person was the missing teen.
Austin-Travis County EMS respond to an incident on Lake Austin after a boat ran aground in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 13, 2023.In addition to the missing teen, two passengers were transported to hospitals with serious injuries. Two others were transported with potentially serious injuries, and two refused transport to hospitals, according to the agency.
In a separate incident, one adult died and five people sustained non-life threatening injuries following a collision between a boat and jet ski that occurred earlier Sunday afternoon on Lake Travis, a reservoir northwest of Lake Austin,More information on the victims in that incident was not available.
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