Vincent Rutowski - Update

Ga. Child Killed by Fla. Airboat

 

Vincent Rutowski - Airboat Death

Funeral services will be Thursday for a 6-year-old Dacula boy killed in an airboat accident last week on the St. Johns River in Florida.

Services for Vincent Rutowski are scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday at Hamilton Mill Memorial Chapel in Buford. Rutowski died after he was run over by the airboat on which he was riding.

Fish and Wildlife and the Coast Guard are investigating this tragic accident.

Dwayne

Two boating deaths under investigation / Boat Strikes Barge on Missouri River Near Tekamah

Two boating deaths under investigation

An investigation continues into the deaths of two people who were killed Sunday when the boat they were in struck a barge in the Missouri River near Tekamah, Neb. Killed were Colton Peterson, 20, a 2004 Blair (Neb.) High School graduate, and Morgen Wees, 19, a 2005 Ralston High School graduate.

Dwayne

Fatal Boating Crash Goes to Trial in Fla.

A man went on trial Wednesday in a fatal boating crash, after the victim's father paid for a computer animation of the wreck that the prosecutor couldn't afford.

Defense attorney Stephen Greer told jurors Wednesday that the computer-generated video is flawed and misleading, partly because it ignores some descriptions of what happened after the 14 boats took off for the Working Man's Bass Club tournament.

We have found that computer animations can be very persuasive in maritime cases.  When well done viewers often accept the animation as reality.  Most judges expect that there be an accurate factual foundation for the animation and it must comport with the facts or usually is excluded.  There is a body of law on admissibility of these types of animations. 

This is an interesting case.

Dwayne