SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – Among the slew of new laws that went into effect July 1 is “Lucy’s Law,” designed to stiffen penalties for careless boaters.
In 2022, 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez died in a boating accident in the Florida Keys. She and a dozen others were on a boat that hit a channel marker near Boca Chita Key.
Her parents, in hope of preventing similar tragedies, proposed new laws to stiffen penalties in boat crashes. It was dubbed Lucy’s Law…