{"id":773202,"date":"2026-07-20T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/773202\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:00:13","slug":"multiple-people-injured-after-three-boats-crash-on-amite-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/773202\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple people injured after three boats crash on Amite River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ASCENSION PARISH, La. (WAFB) &#8211; Three boats were involved in a crash on the Amite River Saturday night, according to information confirmed by the Ascension Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities said eight people were total across the boats involved. Multiple people were ejected during the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One person was transported by air medical helicopter, and three others were transported by Acadian Ambulance, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Livingston Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office, Ascension Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office, and Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Details about what led to the crash and the conditions of those transported were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/2026\/07\/19\/multiple-people-injured-after-3-boats-crash-amite-river\/mailto:typo@wafb.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/2026\/07\/19\/multiple-people-injured-after-3-boats-crash-amite-river\/mailto:typo@wafb.com\">Click here<\/a> to report a typo. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/newsletter\/\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our WAFB 9 News daily digest and breaking news alerts delivered straight to your email inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Watch the latest WAFB news and weather now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASCENSION PARISH, La. (WAFB) &#8211; Three boats were involved in a crash on the Amite River Saturday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[329896,24366,31271,74208,414,126157,16179,42029,15441,192,1868,124835,6098,305926,21980,79,201],"class_list":["post-773202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-acadian","tag-accident","tag-ambulance","tag-amite","tag-and","tag-ascension","tag-boat","tag-boating","tag-crash","tag-environment","tag-fisheries","tag-livingston","tag-louisiana","tag-parish","tag-river","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}