On July 11, 2009, at approximately 12:42 hours,  I was advised of a PWC accident that hit a 14 year old girl on Lake Wawasee.  I arrived on scene after Syracuse Police and Fire were already on scene.  They were attending to the 14 year old who was laying on a trampoline at the end of the pier.  The operator of the PWC was identified as Operator 1 by his IN OLN card.  He advised that he was operating the PWC and accidentally steered into the trampoline that five people were laying on.  He thought that maybe the throttle stuck.  He was operating a 2008 Bombardier Seadoo with no visible registration.  He did have the excise decals on it.  I talked with the 4 uninjured people that were on the Trampoline.

All 4 people advised that Operator 1 was going to spray them with water and got too close.  They advised that it was the first time he was going to do it and it he did not spray them earlier in the day.  The fifth person on the boat was Victim 1.  She was transported by Syracuse Fire to Kosciusko Community Hospital.  I went back and talked with Operator 1.  Operator 1 advised that he was going to spray the people on the trampoline by turning sharply and miscalculated the turn.  I asked Operator 1 if he knew that steering towards people or objects and turning sharply were illegal which he said he did not.  Operator 1 advised that he had his son Occupant 1 and his friend Occupant 2  on the PWC with him at the time.  Operator 1 was issued a citation for steering towards people and an object and turning sharply.  I took some photographs of the area and then went to the hospital.  At the hospital I spoke with Victim 1.  She just got back from getting some tests and was still in a neck brace and strapped to the back board.  They were waiting on the test results before they would her off of it.  Victim 1 advised that her face and ear hurt along with her shoulder.  She told me that she did not see it happen.
Syracuse                      