On Saturday, August 3, 2013, I RFC, received a call from GSP regarding a boating incident in St. Andrews Sound in Glynn County, Georgia.  GSP advised that a boat pulling a tube had run over one of the occupants of the boat after he fell out.  Cpl. and I responded to the the Jekyll Creek Boat ramp where the injured subject had been taken.  

     Once we arrived at the ramp, we were met by two Jekyll Island Emergency Response Personel and GSP Trooper.  Trooper advised that the injured male subject had been taken to the Emergency Room at South East Georgia Health Systems in Brunswick, due to his injuries.  Victim was accompanied by his mother, to the hospital.  I identified the vessel operator, who seemed very calm considering the circumstances and began interviewing him concerning the events that had transpired.  RFC began photographing the boat and its contents and gathering witness statements and Corporal began getting personal information and a sketch from the other occupants.  

     Operator told me that he was pulling on the tube in the St. Andrews Sound area.  As he was making subject several turns and getting back into the wake that he had created it got very rough and the next thing he knew, he felt two or three bumps under the boat.  He then heard his son Victim, yelling for help and saying that he was bleeding.  He realized that Victim had come out of the boat and that the bumps that he had felt under the boat were from his son being run over.  He went straight to him and pulled him into the boat.  When he saw the lacerations on Victim's body, he covered them up with a towel applying direct pressure to the wounds, and his wife called 911.  He then drove straight to the Jekyll Island boat ramp and was met by Emergency Medical Personnel who transported Victim and his mother to the Emergency Room in Brunswick.  operator advised that Victim and friend were sitting on the bow of the boat (forward of the front seat where there was no rail), his wife was sitting in the passenger seat on the port side beside him and his daughter was sitting on the stern swim platform on the port side spotting the skier.  

     After conducting the interviews and gathering evidential pictures and sketches, Operator and the other occupants were released at the scene.  RFC and I went to SEGA Health Systems to check on the status of Victim and get a written statement from his mother.  Upon our arrival, I spoke to the charge nurse who advised that Victim had been flown to Memorial Hospital in Savannah.  She advised that he was in stable but critical condition and his injuries consisted of  a laceration to the left side of his head, four lacerations to the left side, four abrasions to the left thigh, lacerations to his kidney and a possible fractured pelvis.  After obtaining this information, I contacted Corporal who works in Chatham County and he and Ranger responded to Memorial Hospital in Savannah.  Corporal was able to confirm that Victim arrived at Memorial Hospital and was taken into the operating room at approximately 1620 hours.  His injury status also consisted of possible spleen injuries.
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