Alleged Admission From Boat Driver Involved In August Fatal Crash Says “I Drank Too Much”

I drank too much.

That’s the alleged admission in a probable cause statement filed in the Camden County Courthouse against a Sunrise Beach man accused of being drunk and behind the wheel of a boat with 15 people aboard which crashed killing one person back on August 26^th.

Bobby Gene Childers has now formally been charged with BWI-Death of Another, BWI-Serious Physical Injury and BWI-Physical injury.

The accident allegedly happened while Childers was jumping waves from a cruiser causing the boat he was operating to be pushed into a breakwater near the 23-mile marker of the main channel. Pronounced dead at the scene was 44-year-old Nicolette McKenna of Sunrise Beach while 14 others, including Childers, were transported from the scene…three requiring immediate medical attention.

Childers initial appearance on the charges is set for January 9^th.