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Speedboat Driver Charged In Crash That Killed 18-Year-Old Jet Skier Near Baldwin Harbor Speedboat Driver Charged In Crash That Killed 18-Year-Old Jet Skier Near Baldwin Harbor
Speedboat Driver Charged In Crash That Killed 18-Year-Old Jet Skier Near Baldwin Harbor More than three years after an 18-year-old jet skier was killed in a collision with a speedboat off Long Island, the man who prosecutors say is responsible for her death has been formally charged. Christopher Palma, age 48, of Oceanside, was arraigned on second-degree manslaughter and other charges in Nassau County Court on Thursday, Dec. 22, in the death of Caitlin McDonald. Earlier Report: ID Released For Rockville Center 18-Year-Old Killed In Crash Between Jet Ski, Motorboat Prosecutors said Palma, an experienced boater, was operating a 35-foot Fountain boat “at a high rate of…

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by Michael Mashburn
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LI Woman Killed After Colliding With Bulkhead While Being Towed Behind Boat LI Woman Killed After Colliding With Bulkhead While Being Towed Behind Boat
LI Woman Killed After Colliding With Bulkhead While Being Towed Behind Boat A woman was killed while being towed behind a boat and collided with a bulkhead. Nassau County Police said the woman was killed around 5:30 p.m., Sunday, June 21, in Oceanside. According to detectives, a 55-year-old man was operating his boat in Parsonage Cove and towing Sabina Singh, 26, of Baldwin, behind the boat in a recreational tube when she collided with a bulkhead of Middle Bay Country Club. Singh was loaded back onto the boat and transported to Ann Street in Baldwin, police said. Responding officers transported Singh to a local hospital in an ambulance where she wa…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Two Teen Jet Skiers Rescued In Oceanside Two Teen Jet Skiers Rescued In Oceanside
Two Teen Jet Skiers Rescued In Oceanside Two jet skiers were rescued by a quick-moving team of emergency responders on Long Island. At 7: 17 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, a report came in of two teenage boys stranded in the marsh area on their jet skis near Parsonage Cove in Oceanside, according to Nassau County Police. One of the teens, 17, was close to the shore and assisted by a civilian prior to police arrival. The second teen, 17, was further into the marsh and rescued by a Nassau County Police helicopter then taken to a safe location, said police. Neither of the teenagers was injured, according to police. Emergency Services Unit, M…

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by Donna Christopher
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ID Released For Rockville Center 18-Year-Old Killed In Crash Between Jet Ski, Motorboat ID Released For Rockville Center 18-Year-Old Killed In Crash Between Jet Ski, Motorboat
ID Released For Rockville Center 18-Year-Old Killed In Crash Between Jet Ski, Motorboat Click here for an updated story: ID Released For Shirley Woman Killed When Boat Is Struck By 50-Foot Sea Ray One of the two women killed in separate boat crashes on Long Island on Sunday, July 14 has been identified. The crash happened when a jet ski collided with a 35-foot Fountain motorboat at about 10:30 a.m. Sunday in the Middle Bay waterways, southeast of Parsonage Cove, according to Nassau County Police. As a result of this collision, Caitlin Rose McDonald, 18, of Rockville Center was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead by a hospital physi…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Two Women Killed In Separate Long Island Boat Crashes Two Women Killed In Separate Long Island Boat Crashes
Two Women Killed In Separate Long Island Boat Crashes Click here for an updated story: IDs Released For Women Killed In Separate Boat Crashes Two women were killed in separate boat crashes on Long Island on Sunday, July 14. At around 6:30 p.m. east of Moriches Inlet, a 50-foot Sea Ray with three people aboard was traveling westbound a quarter mile off Cupsogue Beach at Cupsogue Beach County Park when it struck a drifting boat broadside with a married couple aboard, Suffolk County Police said.  The man jumped from the boat, and the woman was thrown into the water, according to police. The woman was pulled from the water by …

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by Joe Lombardi