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| Head Injuries From Ray Killed Boater | |
| 2008-03-22 | |
| Mods, I wasn't sure what to file this under WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A boater who was killed when a ray jumped out of the water in the Florida Keys and hit her face died of skull fractures and brain injuries, not from the animal's poisonous barb, a medical examiner said Friday.
Monroe County's medical examiner, Dr. Michael Hunter, determined that the cause of death was "blunt force" head injury and that the collision with the ray killed her off Marathon, about 50 miles northeast of Key West. Hunter's report noted she suffered "multiple skull fractures and direct brain injury resulting in sudden death," said Jorge Pino, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. She was not stung by the ray. The collision knocked Zagorski backward, onto the floor of the boat, Pino said. "The force of that impact was dramatic," he said. The family requested that no autopsy be performed, Pino said. | |
| Posted by:Free Radical |
| #1 Why do the sting rays hate us? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-03-22 17:27 |