Agents with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife are investigating a boating accident in a West Baton Rouge Parish bayou that left two passengers seriously injured Saturday night, one of whom was ejected from the boat, according to a release from the department.

LDWF agents responded to the scene around 8:40 p.m. Saturday in Choctaw Bayou. There authorities learned a single, 17-foot boat with two people on board had hit an object about three quarters of a mile from the marina where they had launched from, causing one of the boaters to be ejected from the vessel, the release said.

The occupant who was ejected was airlifted to a hospital, while the other boater was transported to a hospital in an ambulance, the release added. Both received serious injuries as a result of the crash.

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