Andover woman killed, three hospitalized
Dankert and two buddies, each 23, boarded the small boat within the Seaport on Wednesday night, officers stated. When the boat struck the pier, all 4 had been thrown onto a rocky shoreline, in keeping with Boston Emergency Medical Services, which offered first assist to the victims.
“In difficult conditions, including darkness and slippery shoreline rocks, EMTs George May and Andrea Albano located the scene and began patient care,” EMS posted on social media. “Working in close coordination with Massport Fire, crews carefully extricated four patients from the rocks.”
Lee Gordon, a spokesperson for the Brunswick Corporation, which owns Freedom Boat Clubstated the vessel concerned within the crash was taken from its Seaport location “without authorization and operated outside the knowledge and control of the club, well after the club had closed for the day.”
“It was accessed without our knowledge by someone who was able to gain access to the marina,” Gordon stated by e-mail. “But it was not someone who made a reservation as we were closed for the night.”
Gordon stated the corporate is cooperating with investigators.
Dankert performed soccer at Union College in New York and graduated in 2024, the college confirmed.
“Lizzie was an exceptional student-athlete who had a tremendous impact during her four years at Union College. Her passing is a profound loss for our campus community,” a spokesperson stated in an emailed assertion. “We offer our condolences to Lizzie’s family, classmates, teammates and all those who were lucky to know this terrific young woman.”
Her household could not instantly be reached for remark Thursday night.
In dispatch recordings, emergency responders stated they had been administering CPR to at least one particular person and that one particular person had sustained head accidents.
The passengers had been taken by ambulance to Massachusetts General Hospital, authorities stated.
They had been being handled for accidents that aren’t life-threatening, officers stated.
In an announcement, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden prolonged his “deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Elizabeth Dankert and I assure them that all aspects of this tragedy are under investigation.”
“I want to thank EMS personnel and other first responders for their exceptional treatment and recovery work under extremely difficult conditions,” he stated.
The boat is a Key West model middle console leisure fishing boat with two Yamaha motors. The middle console was closely broken within the crash.
One of the individuals on board was capable of make a 911 name on their cellphone, in keeping with dispatch recordings.
“Caller is stating that a boat crashed into them, a friend is bleeding out, not responding,” a dispatcher from the Massport Fire Department stated. “Caller states [that] boat’s on top of them.”
But emergency responders searched the realm and didn’t discover proof of a second vessel.
“At this time, it does seem like this is a single vessel incident,” the Massport commander on the scene reported shortly earlier than midnight.
Massport shut down visitors on Runway 4R from round 11 pm Wednesday till 7 am Thursday, spokesperson Jennifer Mehigan stated by e-mail. Airport operations weren’t impacted in the course of the closure.
James Borghesani, a spokesperson for Hayden’s workplace, would not say whether or not anybody can be dealing with costs in reference to the crash, citing the investigation.
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