V1 WAS OPERATING IN KINGSLEY LAKE WITH A PASSENGER SEATED BEHIND HER. V2 WAS OPERATING IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO V1. V2 HAD A PASSENGER SEATED BEHIND HIM FACING STERN WHILE TOWING A TUBE BEHIND V2. V1 OPERATOR WAS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE FUEL SYSTEM AND WAS RETURNING TO SHORE. AT SOME POINT THE FUEL SYSTEM CORRECTED ITSELF AND THE V1 OPERATOR PERFORMED A SERIES OF MANEUVERS. DURING ONE OF THESE MANEUVERS THE V1 OPERATOR MADE A TURN INTO THE PATH OF V2'S SKI LINE. V1 OPERATOR ATTEMPTED TO MANEUVER AWAY FROM THE SKI LINE BUT LET GO OF THE HANDLEBAR SO AS TO SHIELD HERSELF AND HER PASSENGER FROM THE TOW LINE THAT WAS APPROXIMATELY HEAD/CHEST LEVEL. V2 SKIER BAILED FROM THE TUBE AS HE WITNESSED THE INCIDENT. V1 OPERATOR AND PASSENGER WERE EJECTED FROM THE VESSEL, WITH THE PASSENGER SUFFERING INJURIES.
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