by admin | Sep 3, 2002 | Uncategorized
The State Highway Patrol has released its fatality figures from the Labor Day weekend. And, those figures put the death toll at six. The Highway Patrol’s Captain Chris Ricks says many of the deaths that occured this past weekend could have been prevented had...
by admin | Sep 3, 2002 | News
A spokesman for the State Water Patrol says two young women on a jet ski apparently never saw the 32-foot boat they hit at the Lake of the Ozarks. Both women were killed. They’re identified as Jennifer Stewart of Springfield and Milissa Jordan of Rogersville....
by admin | May 26, 2001 | News
Thousands of Missourians have taken a special boating safety course since this time a year ago, but the State Water Patrol says thousands more should be taking that course. Thirty-three states have boating safety programs and most make it mandatory. Missouri is not...
by admin | May 25, 2001 | News
The State Water Patrol is ready for the first big boating weekend of the summer season. The boating season actually has been underway long enough for some accidents, injuries, deaths, and drunken boating arrests for people using drugs while boating. Missouri already...
by admin | Jan 17, 2001 | News
A recently released federal report on houseboats warns their owners to be careful about carbon monoxide poisoning. The boat’s generators create the fumes. Water patrolman Alan Barborek says boaters need to check them all the time. The report, from the National...
