Copyright 2002, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

By David Swarts

Ben and Eric Bostrom and Ben’s female friend Kat survived a serious boating accident in Europe, according to an August 20 entry in Ben’s online diary.

From Ben’s account, he, Kat and Eric hired a boat in Sardinia, an Italian island in the Mediterranean where Ben has been spending his mid-season holiday. A high-performance boat hit the Bostroms’ smaller boat at high speed. The Bostrom brothers dove off the boat just prior to the collision and were uninjured, but Ben’s friend Kat suffered six broken ribs, a punctured lung and a laceration on her head.

To read Ben’s account of the incident, go to www.benbostrom155.com.