On 8-3-09 at approximately 1900 hrs I,  received a radio dispatch from the County Sheriff's Dept Dispatch advising me a person on Loon Lake had just called in and reported a capsized sail boat floating upside down out in the lake. They  had not seen the accident but could not see anyone in the water around the boat. County Sheriff's Dept Deputy and Sgt arrived on scene first. Prior to my arrival they were able to locate the owner of the boat and determined everyone involved in the accident had made it out of the water and were actually already in Columbia City at the Parkview Whitley Emergency Room.
	The boat was still upside down out in the lake so upon my arrival on scene I put my boat on Loon Lake and proceeded out to the boat's location. When I arrived the owner of the boat was awaiting my arrival. I took a few pictures of the boat and then told them they could go ahead and begin the process of uprighting the boat. Approximately 40-45 after they began they were eventually able to successfully get the boat flipped back over right side up and I assisted them in towing the boat back to their residence. 
	Once off the lake I retrieved the necessary information from the boat and gained preliminary information regarding the accident. The owner of the boat is Owner 1 of Columbia City. He stated his wife and daughter were out on the boat when the accident occurred. The accident had actually occurred around 1830 hrs, approximately 30 minutes or more prior to the Sheriff's Dept receiving the call regarding the accident. The boat was an 18ft Hobie Cat Sail Boat with a VIN of CCMH6844M82D. The boat sustained no damage as a result of the accident.
	Upon retrieving this information I left the lake and headed to the Emergency Room to speak with the victims. Upon my arrival at the hospital I spoke with both subjects on the boat when the accident occurred. At the time of the accident the boat was being operated by Operator 1 with her mother  Occupant 1 riding right beside her on the boat. They were traveling west bound across the lake with both of them riding on the port side of the boat counter balancing a strong south to southwest wind. 
	A suspend wind gust caught the sail and started flipping the boat over. When this occurred Occupant 1 begin sliding down across the surface of the boat. As the boat continued over her leg wrapped around one of the wire's supporting the mast. Once her leg caught the wire she became stuck and actually was suspended upside down as the boat flipped the rest of the way over. Once the boat came to rest upside down Occupant 1 was actually underneath the boat but her leg came lose when she hit the water and she was immediately able to make her way out from under the boat to the surface of the water.
	Operator 1 ended up in the water right next to the boat. Once out from underneath the boat Occupant 1 crawled up on top of the capsized boat while Operator 1 remained in the water. Within minutes of the accident occurring a neighbor on shore who had witnessed the accident came out to assist them on their pontoon boat. They loaded Operator 1 and Occupant 1 onto the pontoon boat and brought them back to shore to their residence.
	Once back to shore Operator 1 took her mother Occupant 1 straight to the ER to have a cut on the back of her leg checked out. Once at the ER Occupant 1 was treated for her injuries and released a couple of hours later. As a result of this accident Occupant 1 received 21 stitches in e backside of her left leg along the joint just below the knee. She various other sore body parts as well but no broken bones. Operator 1 received numerous bumps and bruises as a result of the accident. Both were wearing their PFD's at the time of the accident.
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