	ICO Boyd and I arrived at the hospital at approximately 2155 hr and found that an Elkhart City Officer was there with some of the information about the crash.  The Elkhart City Officer told me that the victim was getting ready for surgery on his right femur for a compound fracture.  I spoke to the victim.  He told me that he was being pulled by Operator on an inner tube behind a pwc.  He told me that when Operator whipped him around he flew off and skipped into the second pwc driven by operator2.  I asked him if anybody had life jackets on  and he said yes.  I also asked if anyone had been drinking.  Victim said that some of them had a beer or two.  I thanked Victim for his cooperation and the Dr. said that they were ready for him to go into surgery.

I spoke to the owner of the pwc1and his wife.  The both filled out voluntary statements for me.  Operator1 told me that he was pulling Victim on the tube and he whipped him around and Victim flew off hitting the second pwc operated by operator2.  I asked Operator1 if he had been drinking and he said he had a few beers.  I also asked to see his drivers license and he handed me an Indiana ID card.  I had ICO run a license check and found Operator1 to be suspended infraction.  I cited him for operating a pwc while suspended.  I then obtained the phone number for Operator2 and ICO called him and got his address in South Bend where he lived.

	ICO and I drove to OPERATOR2 house and located him.  I asked OPERATOR2 for his drivers license and also if he would give me a voluntary statement.  He said yes and handed me his license.  I ran a drivers license check on OPERATOR2 and found that he was also suspended infraction.  I asked OPERATOR2 what happened and he told me that he was driving the jet ski and when Operator whipped victim around he flew into his jet ski.  I took the written statement from him and cited him for operating a pwc while suspended.

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