ON MAY 15TH, AT APPROXIMATELY 16:17, VESSEL 1 ON LAKE NORMAN AND HAD ONE PASSENGER.  VESSEL 1 IS A 2004 10' SEA DOO.  VESSEL 1 WAS FOLLOWING ANOTHER VESSEL, AN OPEN MOTORBOAT TRAVELING NORTH ON LAKE NORMAN.  VESSEL 1 WAS TRAVELING AT APPROXIMATELY 45 MPH WHEN IT CROSSED A WAKE EJECTING THE REAR PASSENGER.  WHEN OCCUPANT WAS EJECTED, SHE FELL BACKWARDS STRIKING THE CENTER OF HER BACK AND RIGHT HAND ON THE REAR OF THE FOOTWELL OF VESSEL 1.  THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 1 IMMEDIATELY TURNED THE VESSEL TO RETRIEVE HIS PASSENGER.  UPON ARRIVING, THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 1 NOTICED THAT HIS PASSENGER WAS HURT.  HE JUMPED INTO THE WATER AND BEGAN ADMINISTERING FIRST AID.  THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 1 IS A BASIC EMT AND BEGAN TO APPLY C-SPLINE IMMOBILIZATION UNTIL FIRE AND RESCUE ARRIVED WITH A BACK BOARD.  THE PASSENGER NOW PATIENT, WAS THEN AIR LIFTED BY MEDIC TO CHARLOTTE'S MEDICAL CENTER WHERE SHE WAS TREATED FOR BACK INJURY AND SEVERAL BROKEN BONES.  BOTH THE OPERATOR AND PASSENGER OF VESSEL 1 WERE WEARING TYPE III PFDS OF PROPER SIZE.   OCCUPANT STATED THAT SHE HAD LET GO OF THE OPERATORS PFD WHEN HE CROSSED THE WAKE AND WAS EJECTED.  THERE WAS NO ALCOHOL NOR FAILURE OF EQUIPMENT IN THIS ACCIDENT.
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