CLEAR LAKE, Iowa – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources today (Tuesday) released the names of the juveniles involved in Friday’s crash on Clear Lake involving two personal watercrafts. Authorities say 15-year old Kyle Olberding, of Glidden, was operating the personal watercraft that struck a second personal watercraft with 17-year old’s McKenna Holahan, Wynee Bond, and Ellie Shimp, all of Cedar Falls, onboard. Shimp was transported to a hospital in Rochester, Minn. Olberding’s passenger was 16-year old Grant Borkowski, of Carroll.

Olberding was charged with Reckless Use of a Watercraft and Operation of a Watercraft by an Underage Person Without Boating Education. DNR conservation officers remind those operating personal watercraft to stay at a safe distance from other personal watercraft and avoid what they commonly see on Iowa waters of one personal watercraft trying to splash nearby personal watercrafts.

Regardless of age, the DNR encourages everyone who will operate or ride as a passenger on a motorboat or personal watercraft to take an online boater education course, which can be found here: http://www.iowadnr.gov/Things-to-Do/Boating/Boater-Education.