On March 29, 2013, V1 (FL 2269 LK) was being operated east in Spring Creek near Bonita Springs in Lee County.  The vessel was traveling at approximately 35 mph when V1 made a right turn.  V1 turned sharp to the starboard side where it struck mangroves.  V1 became lodged in the mangroves while one stick impaled a passenger near the left temporal.  The stick fractured the skull and caused major brain bleeding.  The subject was transported to the Lee Memorial Hospital by EMS, where he underwent emergency surgery and is currently in critical but stable condition.  On March 30, 2013 the operator of V1 contacted FWC and advised of the accident. Victim had approximately 4 millimeters of a mangrove stick lodge into the front temporal lobe on the left side of his head.  He was transported to the Hospital where he has undergone two separate surgeries on his brain.
BONITA SPRINGS