A 28-year-old woman was killed Sunday afternoon at Coyote Lake
when the personal watercraft she was riding with her boyfriend
collided with another personal watercraft.
A 28-year-old woman was killed Sunday afternoon at Coyote Lake when the personal watercraft she was riding with her boyfriend collided with another personal watercraft.
Almost immediately following the collision several park rangers performed CPR on the woman, but county paramedics pronounced her dead by the time a medical helicopter arrived on the scene, according to county parks officials.
The woman was identified Monday as Rachael Truong of San Jose. She died of multiple traumatic injuries, a spokeswoman for the county coroner’s office said following an autopsy.
The man she was riding with on the personal watercraft was taken by ground ambulance to a San Jose hospital to be treated for injuries, county parks officials said.
County parks officials said alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the accident.
“We’re using park staff to recreate the scene today so we can determine exactly what happened,” Tamara Clark-Shear, spokeswoman for the Santa Clara County Parks Department said Monday. Clark-Shear said the 28-year-old victim was wearing a life jacket at the time of the collision, which occurred at about 4:30 p.m.
“We issued the standard boating accident ticket (to the man driving the personal watercraft that collided with the victim) yesterday,” she said, “but depending on what we find today that can change.”
According to Clark-Shear, the collision took place in the reservoir’s “5 mph zone” close to Sandy Beach.
The name and age of the man whose personal watercraft collided with the victim is not being released by the parks department, except that he is an adult.
