(Moneta, Va.) — A boating accident at Smith Mountain Lake sent three people to the hospital Thursday afternoon.

The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries said the two boats collided around 3 p.m. Three people were injured and transported from the scene. Two of them were treated and released while one remains in the hospital.

One boat was pulling a boogie board with a child on it, while a man and a woman were on board the second boat.

Neither boat was traveling at a high rate of speed. Alcohol was not a factor in this crash.

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