Boater hit by ray died from impact
A boater who was killed when a ray jumped out of the water in the Florida Keys and hit her in the face died of skull fractures and brain injuries, not from the animal’s poisonous barb, a medical examiner said.
Judy Kay Zagorski, 57, of Pigeon, Mich., was in the front of a boat going about 25 mph when a 75-pound spotted eagle ray leaped from the water and hit her in a freak event.
The ray also died in the collision.
Monroe County’s medical examiner, Dr. Michael Hunter, determined that the cause of Zagorski’s death was blunt force trauma to the head.
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