MOABI REGIONAL PARK, CA. (THECOUNT) — Christi Lewis has been identified as the victim Monday after the body of the California woman was recovered following a horror Colorado River boat crash.
The body, later identified as Lewis, 51, was located in the Colorado River around 7:30 a.m., Mohave County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.
The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Division of Boating Safety is continuing to search for three others who remain missing.
The incident happened Saturday near Moabi Regional Park on a stretch of the Colorado River between Pirates Cove and the Topock Marina just north of Lake Havasu. A recreational boat carrying 10 people and another vessel with six people on board collided head-on. source
The Mohave County Sheriff’s Department said more than a dozen people on-board the boats were thrown into the water.
In the immediate aftermath of the impact, good Samaritans in passing boats pulled crash victims out of the water. Nine people were hurt — two of them critically.
None of the boaters were wearing life vests at the time, officials noted.
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