{"id":51172,"date":"2026-04-18T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/51172\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:10:02","slug":"woman-dies-in-boating-accident-on-geneva-lake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/51172\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies in boating accident on Geneva Lake | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">FONTANA, Wis. \u2014 A 57-year-old woman died in a boating accident after becoming stuck on the watercraft&#8217;s propeller on Geneva Lake Thursday night, the Fontana Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Fontana fire and police were dispatched to Gordy&#8217;s Marine for a water rescue at 8 p.m. They determined that the woman fell off a motorized watercraft while it was performing a docking maneuver. The woman &#8220;became entangled in the watercraft&#8217;s propeller,&#8221; according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Emergency personnel freed the woman from the propeller, but she later died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">The watercraft operator was cooperative with the investigation, and alcohol was not believed to have been a contributing factor in the cause of the accident. Criminal charges have not been filed.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is the leading agency for the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bCOPYRIGHT 2026 BY CHANNEL 3000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FONTANA, Wis. \u2014 A 57-year-old woman died in a boating accident after becoming stuck on the watercraft&#8217;s propeller&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,899,1202,28899,2893],"class_list":{"0":"post-51172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-geneva","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-state","12":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116426822443075394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}