Fatal Boat Crash on Lake Hartwell

A man died and two people were injured following a boat crash Sunday afternoon in Lake Hartwell. Hart County Sheriff’s Deputies said they received a call about two boats crashed into each other near Carter’s Ferry Boat Ramp of Lake Hartwell around 1:50 p.m.

Georgia DNR officials said that the man who died was in a boat by himself at the time of the crash, while the second boat had six people, two of which were injured and taken to a hospital in Anderson County to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.

The Hart County Coroner’s Office has not yet released the victim’s name. The DNR Critical Incident Reconstruction Team is investigating this crash.