{"id":428986,"date":"2026-08-10T18:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428986\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T18:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:08:11","slug":"oakland-county-deputies-searching-for-boater-who-struck-injured-swimmer-in-pontiac-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428986\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland County deputies searching for boater who struck, injured swimmer in Pontiac Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>60-year-old Fenton woman injured<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. \u2013 Deputies are searching for the operator of a boat that struck a woman who was swimming in Pontiac Lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The crash happened just after 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 8 on the eastern part of Pontiac Lake near Walt\u2019s Point Marina in White Lake Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">According to the Oakland County Sheriff\u2019s Office, a 60-year-old Fenton woman was swimming in Pontiac Lake when she was struck by a passing boat. She was taken to a local hospital suffering injuries to her back and numerous lacerations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Investigators are searching for the boat\u2019s operator. Witnesses described the vessel as a white speedboat or jet boat with dark accent striping. The operator is described as a man between 50 and 60 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Anyone who saw the crash, recognizes the description of the boat or has photos is asked to contact the Oakland County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 248-858-4950.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorSamantha Sayles headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/team\/ssayles\/\" title=\"View Samantha Sayles&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha Sayles<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Samantha Sayles is an Oakland University alumna who\u2019s been writing Michigan news since 2022. Before joining the ClickOnDetroit team, she wrote stories for WILX in Lansing and WEYI in Flint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"60-year-old Fenton woman injured OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. \u2013 Deputies are searching for the operator of a boat that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,904,145,144,28603],"class_list":["post-428986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-white-lake-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}