With no driver aboard, boat strikes child in the water at Edgewater park

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — Investigators from Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are trying to figure out how a boat with no one behind the helm hit a child in the water.

On Sunday afternoon, FWC said the driver of a boat at was somehow thrown off at George R. Kennedy Memorial Park in Edgewater.

With no one steering, the boat continued and struck a child in the water.

The child was taken to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando. FWC did not release the child’s condition.