Name:	Crimson4Lif -	Reply
Subject:	Boat accident
Date:	7/31/2022 12:59:44 PM

Glad everyone seems to have survivwd by only being injured but i gotta ask.....

2:45am

Watercraft after dark?  Lights?

2  "of the people on watercraft were injured" just how many were on it at 2:45?

Without any smell...it wreaks of alcohol

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Boat accident
Date:	7/31/2022 7:01:53 PM

We were thinking the same. At a minimum the PWC was being operated illegally. There's a good reason they cannot be legally operated in the dark, and whatever caused that person to be operating one at 2:45 AM was in addition to their being just plain stupid. 

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	Boat accident
Date:	7/31/2022 7:19:24 PM

IMO if someone "let them leave" say afer a party or such, they should be held liable also.

Name:	Rooster -	Reply
Subject:	Boat accident
Date:	8/1/2022 7:55:27 PM

They should be snd probably will be in the end.  Lifer is 100% correct.  Host are responsible for guest if it can be proven the guest was intoxicated at the time of departure,

Name:	mariah1 -	Reply
Subject:	Boat accident
Date:	8/1/2022 9:32:28 PM

Amen

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	Boat accident
Date:	8/1/2022 9:53:57 PM (updated 8/1/2022 9:54:32 PM)

44,000 acre lake at 2:45AM and both have to occupy the same space.

Name:	Friday Pint -	Reply
Subject:	Boat accident
Date:	8/2/2022 7:36:06 AM

Actually, Alabama does not recognize social host liability except under very limited circumstances, the primary being if a minor is at your home and you provide alcohol to them.  That does not apply to an adult at your home.  Liability under the Dram Shop Act applies to ABC Board Licensees who provide alcohol "contrary to the provisions of law," i.e., after a customer is visibly intoxicated.  

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	Boat accident
Date:	8/2/2022 8:56:05 AM

Well that sux, so naturally Alabama does it.  Is that for both civil and criminal?

Name:	Friday Pint -	Reply
Subject:	Boat accident
Date:	8/3/2022 11:18:07 AM

Correct.  Like most states.  There are "Open House Party" misdemeanors so cops can break up teenage parties, but those are municipal ordinances.  

Name:	George -	Reply
Subject:	Boat accident
Date:	8/4/2022 11:29:18 AM

I think Alabama law has it right. If I was liable for the action any guest in my house, I would never have any guests.  I'm sure Alexander Shunarrah would not agree.

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	Boat accident
Date:	8/4/2022 12:42:38 PM

You are not made responsible for your guest, you should be held responsible for your own neglegent action of letting an obviuosly inibreated guest leave in control of ANY motorized trasnport, especially one that you know is illegal and dangerous at night. 

Just my opinion.