AS VESSEL WAS TRAVELING AT HALF THROTTLE SPEED, THE VESSEL HIT A TREE BRANCH/STUMP STICKING OUT OF THE WATER AT APPROXIMATELY ONE TO TWO FEET.  BOTH OCCUPANTS WERE EJECTED FROM THE VESSEL. OPERATOR STATES THAT THEY BOTH WERE EJECTED WHILE THE VESSEL WAS STILL RUNNING WHILE CIRCLING AROUND AND WENT OVER TOP OF VICTIM.  VICTIM STATED THAT SHE WAS HOLDING A THROWABLE FLOTATION SEAT CUSHION AT THE TIME OF BEING THROWN OVERBOARD AND THAT THE VESSEL STRUCK  VICTIM SEVERAL TIMES, BUT VICTIM DIDNT KNOW WHAT PART OF THE VESSEL ACTUALLY STRUCK VICTIM. OPERATER WAS ABLE TO SWIM TO VICTIM AND PULL VICTIM  TO A NEARBY PLATFORM. TWO WITNESSES NEARBY NOTICED THE ACCIDENT AND RESPONDED TO HELP.  WITHNESS REPORTEDLY OBSERVED THE IMPACT AND CALLED 911 AND ALSO WENT TO A RESIDENCE FOR RESPONDERS TO ARRIVE.  ONE OF THOSE WITNESSES RETURNED TO THE ACCIDENT WSCENE AND WAS ABLE TO HELP LOAD THE TWO VICTIMS ONTO HIS VESSELAND GET THEM TO A FLOATING DOCK THAT WAS LOCATED NEARBY. THE INJURED WAS KEPT IN THE VESSEL UNTIL EMS ARRIVED. ONE WITNESS STATED THAT THE OPERATOR IN THE ACCIDENT APPEARED TO BE UNHARMED AND THE INJURED SUFFERED LACERATIONS TO HER FACE ABOVE THE LEFT EYE, ON HER UPPER RIGHT ARM AND ON HER LEFT KNEE THAT ALL APPEARED TO WITNESS AS BEING INJUIES FROM THE PROPELLER.  WITNESS APPLIED PRESSURE TO THE WOuND ON THE ARM OF THE VICTIM AND TALKED WITH vICTIM TO TRY TO KEEP HER CONSCIOUS UNTIL EMS ARRIVED. VICTIM WAS AIR LIFTED TO A HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT. UPHON ARRIVAL OF RESUE UNITS, THE VESSEL WAS STILL UNDER POWER AND CIRCLING. THE VESSEL EVENTUALLY STARTED TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE BANK ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE LAKE AND RESCUERS WHERE ABLE TO CORRAL THE VESSEL TO PULL THE KILL SWITCH LANYARD. THE VESSEL SUSTAINED  TO THE RIGHT/CENTER AREA, BOW PORTION, OF THE VESSEL WITH IT BEING DENTED IN. ALSO THE MOTOR HAD SUSTAINED HEAVY DAMAGE. THE LANYARD WAS NOT CONNECTED TO THE MOTOR AND LOCATED IN TEH MIDDLE OF THE VESSEL DUE TO BEING PULLED BY RESUE PERSONNEL. ALCOHOL WAS NOT SUSPECTED IN THIS ACCIDENT AND PFD'S WERE NOT BEING WORN BUT WAS USED WITH THE INJURED PARTY.
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