2 injured after motorboat collides with kayak on Lake Stevens

Published 1:30 am Saturday, July 2, 2016

Associated Press

LAKE STEVENS — Police are investigating a nighttime collision between a motorboat and kayak that left two people injured.

KOMO-TV reported the Friday crash threw a male and a female kayaker into the water several hundred feet from the Lake Stevens shore.

Lake Stevens Fire Department Battalion Chief Perry Putnam said the propeller hit the male kayaker, whose arm was seriously injured.

The woman was not as seriously hurt.

People on the boat that hit the kayak rescued the man and woman.

Both kayakers were taken to the hospital.