The Minnesota Boating Accident Lawyers at the Schmidt Salita Law Team warn that boating season is here. With that, comes boating accidents, injuries, and even wrongful death. They have experience with boating injuries and fatalities, on Lake Minnetonka, the Mississippi River, and other Minnesota lakes.
The latest statistics of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Boating and Water Safety Department show that in Minnesota alone, there were 18 boating fatalities, 71 non-fatal boating accidents, and 35 non-boating drownings in a single year.
Just like “drunk driving” is a problem so is “drunk boating”. Alcohol consumption occurs even more frequently with boat driving than it does with automobile driving. Locally and nationally, alcohol consumption is a key factor in causing boating deaths and accidents. Hennepin County alone issued 106 citations for boating while intoxicated.
The experience of the Minnesota Boating Accident Lawyers at the Schmidt Salita Law Team includes the following cases:
The Minnesota Boat Accident Lawyers bring knowledge and experience to the task of bringing justice to the victims of personal injury and wrongful death in boating accidents. They bring the same personal attention to boating accidents and injuries that they bring to motor vehicle collision injury cases.
www.nsc.org/home-safety/tools-reescources/seasonal-safety/summer/boaters
www.discoverboating.com/ownership/safety/tips
https://www.discoverboating.com/beginner/safety/tips.aspx
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/safety/boatwater/index.html
https://www.boatus.org/boating-safety/
This page has been written, edited, and reviewed by a team of legal writers following our comprehensive editorial guidelines. This page was approved by Founding Partner, Dean M. Salita, with more than 30 years of legal experience as a personal injury attorney.
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