{"id":429411,"date":"2026-08-11T03:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429411\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T03:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:28:27","slug":"authorities-searching-for-boater-who-struck-swimmer-in-pontiac-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429411\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities searching for boater who struck swimmer in Pontiac Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland County authorities are searching for a boater who struck and injured a woman who was swimming on Pontiac Lake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 8 on Pontiac Lake near Walt&#8217;s Point Marina in White Lake Township, according to the Oakland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>A 60-year-old Fenton woman was swimming in the lake when she was hit by a passing boat. Deputies say the woman suffered a back injury and had several lacerations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The woman was taken to a local hospital, where deputies say she remains in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are searching for a white speedboat\/jetboat with dark accent striping. The boat operator is described as a White man between the ages of 50 and 60.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Deputies are asking Pontiac Lake residents and businesses to review security footage for any images or video of a boat matching that description.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call the Oakland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at 248-858-4950.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland County authorities are searching for a boater who struck and injured a woman who was swimming on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[130350,143,46856,145,144],"class_list":["post-429411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-boat-accident","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county-sheriff039s-office","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429411","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=429411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}