A 28-year-old Toronto woman has been charged with impaired boating after a personal watercraft crashed into a family of three on a kayak in Muskoka on Saturday afternoon, OPP say.
Just before 2:30 p.m., a personal watercraft with two people crashed into the kayak on Three Mile Lake about 150 metres from shore.
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Emergency services then responded and found several injured people in the lake.
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Two adults and one child were sent to South Muskoka Memorial Hospital. They were treated for minor injuries before they were released.
The personal watercraft’s 28-year-old female passenger was also released from the hospital with minor injuries.
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Tara Conetta, 28, from Toronto, was subsequently charged with impaired boating, having a blood alcohol concentration of over 80 milligrams, failure to keep a proper lookout and failure to have proof of competency on board of a pleasure craft.
Conetta will appear in court in September.
All parties involved in the crash were wearing life-jackets.
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