A 27-year-old West Palm Beach woman was identified as the boater who was killed Saturday in an airboat crash at Blue Cypress Lake, state officials said.

Callie E. McKenzie was killed when the airboat she was riding with three other people crashed into a second airboat in a narrow channel of the lake, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.

Another person on the boat with McKenzie, Sean Murphy, 28, of West Palm Beach, was being treated for serious injuries at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, FWC said.

About 7:15 p.m. Saturday, authorities received a 911 call about the collision. Paramedics met the boat riders at the Lake Garcia boat ramp off County Road 512 in the Blue Cypress Lake Water Management Area. State officials said the boats collided at a spot where the vegetation creates a blind turn.

FWC is still investigating the crash.

McKenzie’s boat was operated by Jorge Bouza, 29, of Vero Beach, who was not injured, according to a press release. A third passenger, Brooke Rimm-Hewitt, 30, of Delray Beach, had unspecified injuries, FWC said.

Two Vero Beach teenagers who were in the other boat were not injured, state officials said. Jeremy Durling, 17, was operating the boat, with Caitlin Cole, 16, as his passenger, FWC said.

By Lamaur Stancil, TCPalm.com

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