Indiana boaters lack safety skills

With Fourth of July revelers bound for the lakes, Marc Chase of The Times of Northwest Indiana wrote, A Times' computerized analysis of U.S. Coast Guard recreational boating accident records for Lake and Porter counties between 1995 and 2004 shows the circumstances involved in the three cases are largely the rule, not the exception, when it comes to mishaps on region waterways." He also noted a "bottleneck problem that resulted in a disporportionate number of accidents on Indiana's relatively limited coastlines. The data used in this series is available from the IRE and NICAR database library.