Mom recounts Chicago 'Playpen' boating accident that severed her feet: 'I knew I would die'

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Mom recounts Chicago 'Playpen' boating accident that severed her feet: 'I knew I would die'
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Lana Batochir, 34, says both her feet were severed in a Lake Michigan boating incident at Chicago's 'Playpen' near Oak Street Beach.

Cell phone video from a nearby boat shows the victims in the water after another boat backed into them during a Lake Michigan boating incident at Chicago's "Playpen."over the weekend says she would have drowned had her husband not pulled her out of the water at the last second.

Batochir was conscious but had suffered severe injuries from the boat's propeller. "Both feet were severed," Patchnik said. The other woman suffered a serious injury to her hand and a tourniquet was applied. "Everything happened so fast," she said on the GoFundMe page. "We were all under his boat within seconds. The boat's propeller struck me, leaving me with unimaginable pain."

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