On Wednesday a 16-year-old Old Greenwich girl, Emily Fedorka died in a boating accident.
Police Chief James Heavey said that she was water tubing off Greenwich Point when she fell off the tube and was run over by a boat.
He said that the boat driver made a turn to pick up the tubers but the boat collided with the two girls in the water and they became entangled in the propeller.
Both the boat operator and passengers helped the victims by lifting them into the boat and taking them straight to Old Greenwich Yacht Club dock the Greenwich Point Park. The second girl in the water suffered serious cuts to her leg and is in stable condition at Stamford Hospital.
There were no adults on the boat, and the driver was 16 years old but Heavey said that in the state of Connecticut the minimum age to operate a boat is 16, as long as they have passed a safe boating course.
Heavey did not say who owned the boat or whether Fedorko and the other teen who was in the water were wearing life jackets.
The accident is being investigated by the Greenwich Police Department Marine Section and Lt. John Brown of the department said there have been three boating-related deaths in the last decade in Greenwich.
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