A powerboat driver has died after crashing into a houseboat during a racing event near Lowestoft.
The man, named as Brett Duncan, was injured during a lone racing accident at about 6.50pm on Thursday at the Lowestoft and Oulton Broad Motor Boat Club, the Circuit Powerboat Association (CPA) said.
In a statement posted on Facebook on Friday, the CPA said Mr Duncan, 51, a circuit powerboat racer, was “an experienced and popular member of the power boating community”.
The CPA said it was “shocked and saddened by Brett’s untimely passing and our sincere thoughts and condolences are with his family and friends at this tragic time”.
The association thanked event staff and the emergency services “for their swift and timely response to the incident” and asked that Mr Duncan’s family be “given the privacy that they need to grieve”.
Suffolk Police said officers were called just after 7.10pm “to reports of a collision involving a powerboat and a stationary houseboat in the vicinity of Oulton Broad Water Sports Centre.
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“The East of England Ambulance Service, Coastguard and a volunteer paramedic from Suffolk Accident Rescue Service (SARS) were also on the scene but despite the best efforts of medical personnel, the driver of the powerboat – a man aged in his 50s – sadly died at the scene.
“There were no other injuries as a result of the collision.”
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