A New Jersey teenager has died after crashing into a boat’s propeller while trying to board the boat from a raft.
Zeina Mahafzah, 18, was struck and killed in the waters off Sunset Park in Harvey Cedars Boro, Ocean County, around 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
New Jersey State Police said Mahafzah was on a raft pulled by a boat and as she attempted to board the vessel, she was fatally struck by the propeller.
It is unknown how many people were on board and who was driving the boat, but NBC Philadelphia Doctors reportedly assessed other people on board who witnessed the teenager’s death.
“As the investigation is in its preliminary stages, we ask that you keep the family and community in your thoughts and prayers,” the Harvey Cedars Police Department said.
Zeina Mahafzah (pictured), 18, died after hitting a boat’s propeller as she tried to board the boat from a raft.
Mahafzah was struck in the waters off Sunset Park in Harvey Cedars Boro, Ocean County around 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
Mahafzah recently graduated from Wayne Hills High School and was set to attend Rutgers University.
In a college decision video for Wayne Hills’ Class of 2024, he wore a red T-shirt and said he was going to college without deciding what his major would be.
“We have been in contact with the family and are respecting their wishes, so we have no comment at this time,” Wayne Township Superintendent Mark Toback said. New Jersey.com.
Sunset Park is on the bay side of Harvey Cedars, located in the northern section of Long Beach Island.
She (pictured with her father) recently graduated from Wayne Hills High School and was set to attend Rutgers University.
In a college decision video for Wayne Hills’ Class of 2024, he wore a red T-shirt and said he was going to college without deciding what his major would be.
In June, a boat driver killed a young woman by turning too fast and crashing her into another boat while she was tubing.
Kaileigh Seidel, 24, died June 22 from injuries she sustained in the collision on the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon.
Police said she was “thrown” off the boat at around 8pm, but her friend Millie Lovea, who was on board watching helplessly, blamed the driver.
Lovea said the driver was “going back and forth across the river” and took a turn too fast, throwing the tube — and Seidel — into the other boat.