Video of fast motorboat in Edmonton creek prompts investigation
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River valley users and officials are reacting after a video surfaced on social media of a motorboat speeding down Whitemud Creek in Edmonton on Sunday.
River valley users and officials are reacting after a video surfaced on social media of a motorboat speeding down Whitemud Creek in Edmonton on Sunday.
The area is a wildlife corridor, home to various types of fish, birds, and animals, and is widely used by canoeists and kayakers.
The video shows the boat with multiple people on board narrowly missing a canoe travelling in the opposite direction.
"The point where the jet boat goes past the individual in the canoe, it appears to me to be within a foot and a half, maybe two feet at the most, and the canoeist was tucked right into the bank. That doesn’t give much room for safety," naturalist Wayne Oakes commented on Wednesday.
"If there had been one or two more [canoes] behind this lead person, that could have had some real dire consequences."
Oakes has spent a lot of time near the creek over the last eight years.
He said motorboats in the creek is more common than he would like, as he recalled another incident in 2016.
