CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago police revealed new particulars a couple of Lake Michigan boating accident that significantly injured two girls over the weekend.

The incident happened in what’s often called the “Playpen,” an space of the lake protected by break partitions between Oak Avenue and Ohio Avenue seashores. On good weekends, a whole lot of boaters typically anchor within the space, tie their boats collectively and swim off the again.

It is typically a soothing time within the water, however on Saturday night, it was something however. Cellular phone video from a close-by boat exhibits the victims within the water after one other boat backed into them.

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One lady’s ft have been severed by the propeller, police mentioned, and one other had extreme accidents to her hand.

Witness Ted Widen might hardly consider what he was seeing.

“All these folks that have been on a lily pad or no matter type of floatie, they have been merely displaced, then had nowhere to go,” Widen mentioned.

Widen’s good friend was on a ship close by and helped pull a number of of the victims out of the water earlier than police arrived. They helped get the remainder of the victims to security. Lots of these within the water have been nonetheless in shock.

“I consider there have been six to eight people on a flotation raft and whereas they have been on that raft, one other boat reversed into them, sucking them proper beneath their boat,” mentioned Officer Ark Pachnik, with Chicago Police Marine Unit.

As soon as they received to shore, Pachnik mentioned he carried the girl with the injured ft over his shoulder to the ambulance.

“It was hectic,” mentioned Officer Raul Echevarria, who tended to the girl with the injured hand.

Paramedics took each victims to Northwestern Hospital close by.

Chicago police mentioned they’re nonetheless investigating the incident, however at this level, they’re calling it an accident.