The Illinois Department of Natural Resources Conservation Police continue to investigate a boating accident Friday night in Ogle County on the Rock River the claimed that life of a Rockford woman.
32-year old Megan Wells was pronounced dead at a Rockford hospital following injuries from the incident.
The collision took place a short time after 8:30 Friday night on the Rock River, about 3 miles north of Oregon. Emergency personnel received word of several people in the water after a pontoon boat collided with a fishing boat.
Wells was on the pontoon boat along with 52-year old David Daily of Leaf River and 52-year old Phillip Lukes and 59-year old Sherry Bushre, both from Chicago.
46-year old Marc Mongan and 29-year old Nicholas Lamb, both from Oregon, were in the fishing boat.
All were taken to a Rockford hospital for treatment of their injuries.
Emergency personnel from the Oregon and Byron Fire Departments responded to the scene along with the Air-One Emergency Response Coalition.