Kris Kaiser remembers twenty five years ago when a boating accident killed Tim Crews and Steve Olin. It also seriously injured Bobby Ojeda:
Crews, the pilot of the boat, slammed into a dark, unlit pier at an estimated 40 miles an hour. The crash was catastrophic. Olin was killed instantly and was rumored to have been nearly decapitated. Indians strength coach Fernando Montes, the first man on the scene after the crash, disputed this claim.
Crews was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support, but died the following morning. His blood-alcohol level was measured at .14, well over the legal limit in Florida. Authorities also discovered alcohol on the watercraft.
Only Ojeda survived, but not without suffering severe head lacerations and major blood loss. In a 2012 essay for The New York Times, Ojeda wrote that he “escaped being killed by a half-inch” simply because he was slouching in his seat. He said in the same essay that the event “shook him to his core.”
At the time, I remember someone saying that Ojeda was scalped. Ballplayers and speeding boats at night do not mix well.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2pwP1Rr
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