This just in from the Sun Sentinel Newspaper here in Florida. This is the accident where the man in a motor boat at night crashed into the damn over a canal in Broward County, Florida. His blood alcohol level was three times over the legal limit. He was alone in the boat.

Hollywood man fatally injured in boat crash was legally drunk
October 4, 2007

A Hollywood man who was critically injured when he crashed his boat in a canal on Sunday has died, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.

Mark Edward Babinec, 37, had been navigating the Dania Cut-Off Canal Sunday night when he hit his head on a set of pipes that hang low over the canal and then crashed into the embankment at State Road 7 and Orange Drive, officials said.

Babinec’s blood alcohol level at the time of the crash was .242, about three times the legal limit, according to the Sheriff’s Office. In addition to alcohol, officials said speed also was a factor, with witnessing saying Babinec was going 40 to 50 mph when the crash occurred.

He was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital, in Hollywood, where he died Tuesday afternoon.