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Boating collision on Banks Lake leaves one boat atop another

Only minor injuries result

When Mark Head noticed the other boat headed straight for him in the middle of Banks Lake, it was too late.

Head, 51, from Cashmere, and the four others aboard his pontoon boat, including small children, had been just floating, doing some cleaning up without the engine running about 5:25 p.m. Thursday when he saw the wake boat coming.

Head hurried to try to start the engine and move, but couldn't...

 

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