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Owner of boat arrested and charged after fatal boating accident

Posted on Aug 31, 2009

A man accused of killing two people in a boating accident has been arrested and charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. The man, Ronald Stevens, was the driver and the owner of the boat that was involved in the accident.

Stevens’ boat was carrying eight adults and four children – all from Boise, Idaho – when it hit rocks, capsized, and sank in Payette Lake. Two people, a 61 year old woman named Linda Catlin and her 41 year old son Shane Catlin were killed when the boat sank.

The coroner in the case stated that Linda Catlin died of hypothermia due to the cold lake temperatures and her son Shane drowned. A one-year old child who was on the boat when it sank had to be taken to the hospital by helicopter to be treated for hypothermia.

Stevens’ blood is being tested for alcohol to determine if it was a factor in the crash. None of the people on the boat were wearing a life jacket when the accident happened, and they had to wait two hours to be rescued.

The accident victims who survived either swam to safety on a nearby island or clung to the wreckage of the boat until help arrived.