ON 6/15/09 I WAS DISPATCHED TO THE 4 LANE BOAT RAMP REFERENCE AN ACCIDENT WITH INJURIES. UPON ARRIVAL I OBSERVED PEORIA FIRE ON SCENE AS THEY BEGAN TO TREAT SEVERAL SUBJECTS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE ACCIDENT. I SPOKE TO A SUBJECT WHO WAS THE OWNER OF BOTH PWC AND HE RELATED TO ME THAT HE AND HIS PASSENGER HAD JUST PULLED UP TO THE NO WAKE BUOY LINE AT HUMBUG COVE ON V2 WHEN HIS SON-IN-LAW WHO WAS OPERATING V1 HIT THEM FROM BEHIND AND WENT OVER TOP OF THEM. OPERATOR OF V1 USUTAINED INJURIES TO HIS RIGHT CHEST CAVITY AND SHOULDER AREA. HE COULD NOT FEEL ANYTHING AT THIS TIME AND IT WAS HARD TO BREATH. I THEN SPOKE TO PASSENGER OF V1 AND SHE HAD SUSTAINED INJURIES TO HER RIGHT ARM. SHE HAD AN OBVIOUS SCRATCH AND QUITE A BIT OF SWELLING. THEY WERE BOTH TRASPORTED TO ARROWHEAD HOSPITAL FOR FURTHER TREATMENT. THE OPERATOR OF V1 RELATED TO ME THAT HE WAS ON PLANE WHEN COMING UP TO V2 AND HE ATTEMPTED TO CHANGE HIS GRIP DUE TO HIS FINGERS HURTING, WHEN HE DID THIS HE REALIZED THAT HE HAD NO TURNING ABILITY AND WAS NOT ABLE TO TURN UNTIL HE HIT THE THROTTLE AND BEGAN TO TURN AWAY BUT STILL STRUCK V2 FROM BEHIND. HE STATED THAT HE WAS NOT INJURED, BUT HIS PASSENGER OF V1 NEEDED MEDICAL ATTENTION BUT HE WAS GOING TO SLEF TRANSPORT TO ARROWHEAD HOSPITAL FOR FURTHER CARE OF AN INJURY TO HER RIGHT ARM. AFTER ALL PARTIES HAD BEEN TREATED AND LEFT THE SCENE, I OBSERVED THE PWC'S FOR DAMAGE. IT APPEARS THAT V2 HIT V1 FROM THE STARBOARD REAR AND CROSSED OVER TO THE PORT SIDE IMPACTING THE PASSENGER IN THE RIGHT SIDE AS WELL AS THE OPERATOR PINNING HIS BODY INTO THE STEERING MECHANISM AND BENDING THE STEERING COLUMN UPWARD THEN PUSHING THEM AWAY WITH THE WATER. DUE TO THE INFORMATION GATHERED AT THE SCENE AND THE EVIDENCE IT WAS DETERMINED THAT V1 WAS OPERATING IN A CARELESS MANNER AND THEREFORE WILL BE CITED FOR THE VIOLATION CARELESS RECKLESS OEPRATION OF A PERSONAL WATERCRAFT. NOTHING FURTHER.
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