ON 7/19/09 AT APPROX. 1120HRS WE RESPONDED TO CRABTREE WASH AREA REFERENCE A JET SKI ACCIDENT. WE ARRIVED AND FOUND SEVERAL SUBJECTS STANDING AROUND A WHITE FEMALE LYING ON HER SIDE IN THE ROCKS LOCATED ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE COVE. ACCORDING TO WITNESSES SHE WAS DRIVING A JET SKI. WE ATTENDED THE VICTIM AND ONCE STABILIZED WE PLACED HER ON A BACKBOARD AND SLID HER INTO THE PATROL BOAT AND TRANSPORTED HER TO APACHE LAKE BOAT HOUSE. UPON ARRIVING WE PROCEEDED TO STRAP HER TO THE BACKBOARD DURING WHICH SHE COMPLAINED OF HER RIGHT SIDE BEING HURT AND THAT SHE FELT QUEEZY. SHE THEN WENT INTO A SEIZURE FOR APPROX. 2 MINUTES. AIR EVAC WAS REQUESTED AND LANDED WHILE SHE WAS GOING INTO THE SEIZURE. WE PLACED HER ONTO THE MEDICAL GURNEY AND KEPT HER AIRWAY OPEN UNTIL THE FLIGHT MEDICS ARRIVED. SHE WAS MOVED TO THE AID STATION WERE AIR EVAC WORKED ON STABILIZING HER PRIOR TO TRANSPORT. SHE HAD A HEAD INJURY FROM THE ACCIDENT WHICH WAS EVIDENT FROM THE BLOOD COMING FROM THE BACK OF HER HEAD. SHE WAS TRANSPORTED TO SCOTTSDALE OSBORNE HOSPITAL VIA AIR EVAC. I THEN RETURNED TO CRABTREE WASH AND TALKED TO THE WITNESS. HE TOLD ME THAT HE WAS RELAXING BY THE WATER WHEN HE NOTICED THE FEMALE ON AN OLDER JET SKI COMING INTO THE COVE TRAVELING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. HE SAID SHE WAS STANDING UP ON THE JETSKI GOING UNDER 10MPH SCANNING THE CAMPGROUND AS IF LOOKING FOR SOMEONE. SHE MADE AGENTLE TURN TO HER LEFT STILL TRAVELING SLOW AND THEN ANOTHER TURN TO HER LEFT TO HEAD BACK OUT OF THE COVE. THE WITNESS SAID WHEN SHE MADE HER FINAL TURN TO HEAD BACK OUT SHE LOOKED TO BE HADING TOWARDS THE ROCK FACE. HE SAID IT LOOKED LIKE SHE SAW THE MAOUNTAIN AND TRIED TO SWERVE AWAY FROM IT. SHE ACCELERATED AND MADE A SHARP TURN TO HER LEFT BUT NOT FAR ENOUGH BECAUSE THE WITNESS SAID THE HULL OF THE SKI MADE CONTACT WITH THE ROCKS WHICH THREW THE FEMALE UP INTO THE AIR ABOUT 5 FEET AND SHE LANDED ON HER BACK ON THE ROCKS. I CHECKED WITH THE OWNER OF THE JETSKI AND SHE TOLD ME THE SKI WAS STILL OPERATIONAL AND ONLY HAD MINOR DAMAGE (SCTATCHES TO THE HULL UNDERNEATH THE WATERLINE.)
MESA                          