4-year-old trapped on runaway speedboat
A 4-year-old boy was trapped for 45 minutes on a speedboat zipping around Lake Michigan after his parents fell overboard.
Gary Marine Unit Patrolman Phillip Cook says the wake from a larger boat apparently tossed the adults overboard, where they were rescued by a passing boat. The father evidently turned the steering wheel as he fell Tuesday and the boat began going in circles at full throttle near the East Chicago marina.
Police and Coast Guard officers tried throwing tow lines to stop the boat, but it eventually stopped after drifting near rocks that clipped the propeller and killed the motor.
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