Navesink: Body found, man charged after two boat crash in Navesink River

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Alcohol and boating are a bad combination.





Body found, man charged after two-boat crash in Navesink River

Published: Sunday, July 24, 2011, 11:00 AM



MIDDLETOWN — A man was killed and another was charged with driving while intoxicated after a two-boat collision Saturday night on the Navesink River, according to the New Jersey State Police.
Two boats – one a Boston Whaler with five people aboard, the other a Stingray powerboat with two – collided about 11:32 p.m., Polite said. All five on the Whaler were thrown off but reboarded their boat, but the man who was thrown off the Stingray by the impact was lost in the water.

State and local police were searching a affluent area of Middletown by land, sea and air by 1 a.m. Several women, barefoot and wrapped in blankets, huddled in ambulances as the search dragged on last night. Middletown rescue units called off the search at 5:12 a.m. But state police were searching the area again several hours later by boat and helicopter, and found the missing boater around 9 a.m. today.

Christopher Plant, 50, from Keansburg, was identified as the deceased after next of kin were notified.

George Harrington, a 39-year-old from Atlantic Highlands, was charged with driving while intoxicated today. He has been identified as the pilot of the Whaler, Polite said.
Polite also said state police detectives are on their way to continue the investigation of the collision and the death.

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Sad news.