Former college soccer player killed in boat crash after group allegedly took vessel without authorization

A 24-year-old erstwhile student-athlete was killed successful a vessel clang successful Massachusetts aft she and her friends allegedly took a vas without authorization earlier it crashed into a pier.

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Dankert, a erstwhile shot subordinate astatine Union College, was killed aft a recreational powerboat crashed into a pier adjacent a runway astatine Logan International Airport astir 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to Massachusetts State Police.

The fatal clang drew attraction aft authorities said the radical allegedly took the vessel without authorization hours aft the boating nine had closed for the night.

Dankert and her friends were successful Boston’s Seaport District that nighttime erstwhile they allegedly boarded a Freedom Boat Club vas aft the nine had closed, according to Lee Gordon, a spokesperson for Brunswick Corporation, which owns the club, told Fox News Digital.

Freedom Boat Club operates arsenic a membership-based alternate to vessel ownership with hundreds of locations worldwide.

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A damaged recreational vessel sits adjacent a pier astatine Logan International Airport successful Boston aft a clang Wednesday nighttime that killed erstwhile Union College shot subordinate Elizabeth "Lizzie" Dankert, according to Massachusetts State Police. (Boston Emergency Medical Services)

"The vas progressive successful the incidental was taken without authorization and operated extracurricular the cognition and power of the Club, good aft the Club had closed for the day," Gordon said. "This enactment did not hap wrong mean Club operations oregon established protocols governing entree to and usage of our vessels.

"We are cooperating afloat with each applicable authorities arsenic they enactment to find the circumstances surrounding the incident," helium added.

Boston EMS said successful a Facebook station that crews responded to the clang overnight successful hard conditions, including acheronian and slippery shoreline rocks adjacent the pier.

EMTs worked with Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) occurrence crews to extricate 4 radical from the rocks, including 1 critically injured patient.

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A erstwhile collegiate student-athlete was killed aft a recreational powerboat crashed into a pier adjacent a runway astatine Logan International Airport precocious Wednesday night. (Getty Images, File)

Following the crash, the boat’s driver, Lawrence Shieh, 40, and 2 of Dankert’s 23-year-old friends were taken to Massachusetts General Hospital. 

The 3 suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to WCVB.

"Lizzie was an exceptional student-athlete who had a tremendous interaction during her 4 years astatine Union College," schoolhouse spokesperson Phillip Wajda told Boston 25 successful a statement.

"Her passing is simply a profound nonaccomplishment for our field community," helium added.

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The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office is continuing to analyse the crash.

The attorney's bureau did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.