Life jackets may have saved the lives of three people who were ejected into the water after a boat crash on Saturday night.
According to Russell County Search and Rescue (RCSR), emergency personnel were dispatched just before 9 p.m. on Saturday in response to reports of a boat crash between Lowgap Island and Marina Rowena on the Cumberland River.
According to RCSR, the boat crash sent three people into the water. Rescue crews said each person wore a life jacket, which “undoubtedly saved their lives.
One patient, too injured to make it out of the water alone, had to be extracted by a team of four divers and assisted onto a “spine board,” per rescue personnel.
One patient was taken to a nearby hospital. The second was flown to a “level 1 trauma center,” and the third patient was flown to a hospital from the Jamestown Marina, according to RCSR.
Kentucky Fish & Wildlife, as well as various emergency personnel and regional rescue teams, assisted in the search and rescue of the three injured patients, authorities said.
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