On 8/20/10 i arrived at the scene of a boat accident with injuries at the burnt corral boat ramp at apache lake. While there i spoke to the operator of a pwc and related to me that he had hit a boat while he was operating at the lake. The operatorwas being treated for mutiple lacerations to his face and his left finger. After he was flown to scottsdale osborne hopsital for further treatment i took his girlfriend back to their campsite at upper burnt corral so she could load up and meet the operator at the hospital. While at the campsite it was able to take photos of the pwc and i noted that there was some transfer marks on the steering column from starting from the starboard side to the port aft direction. There was broken plastic on the starboard aft side of the rubrail. deputy made contact with the boat operator at the lower urnt corral campsite but due to the night sky he was not able to see if there was and further damage to the boat other then transfer marks. The operator stated that they were just north of the no wake buoy line when a pwc had blown by them at about 10-15 feet away along his starboard side. He also advised that his boat was already on plane when the operator of the pwc made a quick left turn into their direction of travel and stalled when they collided with it. After the collision occurred they immediatly turned around and found the operator of the pwc face down in the water and unconscious. They immediatly pulled him out of the water and brought him to the boat ramp notifying the authorities. He then returned to his campsite and waited until we contacted him as the pwc oeprator was being treated. Deputy contacted the hospital later and was advised that the pwc operator had only sustained a compound fracture to his right finger and a bump on his head with some lacerations. These injuries that he received were classified as non-life threatening. Nothing further.
TORTILLA FLATS                