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Man Killed In Boat Crash In Great South Bay: PD
The 25-year-old was a passenger on one of the two boats that crashed in the West Fox Creek Channel Sunday afternoon.
BABYLON, NY — A Lindenhurst man was killed after a crash between two boats in the Great South Bay Sunday afternoon, according to Suffolk Police.
A 58-year-old Farmingdale man was operating a 17-foot 1981 Boston Whaler southbound in West Fox Creek Channel, south of Babylon, when the vessel struck a northbound 22-foot 1987 Activator motor boat, operated by a 19-year-old Lindenhurst man, at 2:40 p.m.
A passenger on the Activator, 25-year-old Zachary McCarthy, of Lindenhurst, was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.
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The two boat operators were transported to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip for treatment of minor injuries.
Both boats were impounded for safety checks.
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