3 injured after being ejected from boat in Lake Cumberland crash

JAMESTOWN, Ky. ( FOX 56 ) — Life jackets may have saved the lives of three people who were ejected into the water after a boat crash on Saturday night.

According to Russell County Search and Rescue (RCSR), emergency personnel were dispatched just before 9 p.m. on Saturday in response to reports of a boat crash between Lowgap Island and Marina Rowena on the Cumberland River.

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According to RCSR, the boat crash sent three people into the water. Rescue crews said each person wore a life jacket, which “undoubtedly saved their lives.

One patient, too injured to make it out of the water alone, had to be extracted by a team of four divers and assisted onto a “spine board,” per rescue personnel.

One patient was taken to a nearby hospital. The second was flown to a “level 1 trauma center,” and the third patient was flown to a hospital from the Jamestown Marina, according to RCSR.

Kentucky Fish & Wildlife, as well as various emergency personnel and regional rescue teams, assisted in the search and rescue of the three injured patients, authorities said.

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