Effinger has been charged with five offences following the incident on 15 July in which 10 people were thrown from a speeding boat on Lake Gage.
Two people were left seriously injured, while the other eight people, including Effinger, suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Effinger, 20, from Fort Wayne, was driving the Ski Nautique motor boat when the incident happened.
She has now been charged with Operating a Motorboat While Intoxicated Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury to Another Person and Operating a Motorboat with an Alcohol Concentration Equivalent to at least .08 Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury to Another Person.
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Investigations are still ongoing and prosecutors say additional charges could be filed.
The Ski Nautique motor boat was travelling at approximately when the incident happened.
The vessel continued circling the lake, unmanned, and was only brought under control after a rope was thrown into its propeller.
However, the motor boat hit a dock and hit the Indiana Department of Natural
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said that the 20-year-old operator of the Correct Craft Ski Nautique motor boat, Dominique Effinger, has been arrested for allegedly boating while intoxicated causing injury and being a minor in possession of alcohol.
“Initial information from investigating Conservation Officers shows that Dominique Effinger, age 20 of Ft. Wayne, was operating a 21 ft. Correct Craft Ski Nautique on Lake Gage at a high rate of speed when the boat cut into a violent turn ejecting all 10 occupants of the boat,” said the department in a media release.
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