A lawyer from Kansas is dead after the water scooter he was operating collided with a motorboat in southwest Florida.
The crash happened Sunday afternoon in Charlotte County.
Charlotte County Fire and EMS spokeswoman Dee Hawkins told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that 54-year-old Lee Hollis of Leawood, Kansas, died Monday. Doctors amputated one of his legs on Sunday afternoon.
Investigators said all four occupants of the boat were ejected during the crash. A 38-year-old woman suffered a traumatic chest injury and was airlifted to a Fort Myers hospital. The 43-year-old man who was operating the boat, a 40-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy suffered minor injuries.
People on a nearby sailboat helped rescue the injured.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Gary Morse said the cause of the crash is under investigation.
