The State - News from May 27, 1986

Two Californians were killed in a boating collision on Lake Havasu in Arizona, authorities said. Sgt. Robert Kuerner of the Mohave County Sheriff’s Department said four other persons were injured while five escaped injury when the two boats collided in Lake Havasu a half-mile west of Sand Point Marina. Kuerner identified the two who were killed as Molly Lynn Roberts, 30, of Huntington Beach, and Karen Butcher, 20, of San Bernardino. They were among the passengers in a 21-foot boat driven by Charles Gene Salisbury of Riverside, who was among the injured, all of whom suffered head injures and were flown to hospitals in Phoenix, Kuerner said. He said the operator of the other vessel, Carl Bruce Hacker of Anaheim, was cited for investigation of operating a boat while under the influence of alcohol. Hacker and his three passengers, also of Anaheim, were thrown from their boat but escaped injury.