{"id":288810,"date":"2026-07-07T02:50:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288810\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T02:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:50:30","slug":"boat-hits-shoal-in-st-lawrence-river-2-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288810\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat hits shoal in St. Lawrence River, 2 hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOWN OF CLAYTON, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Two people were taken to hospitals after the boat they were in struck a shoal in the St. Lawrence River over the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to New York State Park Police, the boat carrying four people hit Chapman Shoal near Clayton at around 11:25 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries and hospitalizations<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 32-year-old operator and a 40-year-old passenger suffered head injuries. Their names were not released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The operator was taken to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse. The passenger was transported to Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both patients were in stable condition Monday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue and recovery<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jefferson County officials said a passing boat rescued the people on the damaged vessel and brought them to the dock at 1000 Islands Harbor Hotel, where emergency medical services workers were standing by.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A barge removed the damaged boat Sunday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Park police said the incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWN OF CLAYTON, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Two people were taken to hospitals after the boat they were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[110411,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-288810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-boat-on-shoal-wwny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}