ON JULY 5, 2013 AT APPROX 11:40 AM V1 OPERATOR WAS OPERATING A 2009 SEA DOO JET SKI WHEN HE COLLIDED WITH HIS STEP SON V2 OPERATOR WHO WAS OPERATING A 2011 SEA DOO JET SKI.  THE COLLISION OCCURRED IN THE MAIN CHANNEL, JUST WEST OF THE HALLS CROSSING MARINA.

ACCORDING TO V1 OPERATOR BOTH INDIVIDUALS WERE TRAVELING NORTHBOUND TOWARD BULL FROG MARINA, V2 OPERATOR WAS OPERATING HIS PWC JUST TO THE LEFT (AAPROX 15 FT) OF V1.  WHEN THE 2 PWCS PASSED A SOUTHBOUND BOAT V2 OPERATOR LOST CONTROL OF HIS PWC WHEN HE HIT A LARGE WAKE AND CAME ACROSS PERPENDICULAR TO V1 BOW. V1 THEN TBONE V2 RIGHT BEHIND THE STEERING CONTROLS ON THE STARBOARD SIDE.  THE COLLISION KNOCKED V2 OPERATOR INTO THE WATER.  BOTH INDIVIDUALS WERE WEARING THEIR PFD.

V2 OPERATOR SURFACES IMMEDIATELY AND STATE THAT HIS RIGHT LEG WAS BROKEN. V1 OPERATOR FLAGGED DOWN A PASSING SKI BOAT AND INJURED 2 WAS PULLED ABOARD.  NO LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS OR OTHER CHIEF COMPLAINTS WERE REPORTED BY INJURED 2.  INJURED 2 SUSTAINED AN OBVIOUS TIBIA/FIBULA FRACTURE AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE BULLFROG MEDICAL CLINIC BY MEDIC 5 AMBULANCE AND THEN FLOWN VIA CLASSIC LIFEGUARD AERO MEDICAL SVCS TO ST MARY'S HOSPITAL IN GRAND JUNCTION CO.

INJURED 1 SUSTAINED A LARGE HAEMATOMA ON THE RIGHT UPPER LEG AS A RESULT OF THE ACCIDENT.  HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE BULLFROG MEDICAL CLINIC VIA NPS PATROL VEHICLE AND WAS RELEASED SHORTLY AFTER.

OPERATOR 1 DENIED CONSUMING ANY ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES THE DAY OF THE ACCIDENT.  HE SHOWED NO SIGNS OF IMPAIRMENT.

V1 SUSTAINED MINOR SCRATCH MARKS TO THE BOW BUMPER.  NO OTHER DAMAGE WAS VISIBLE AND THE MACHINE WAS DRIVEN TO THE BULLFROG LAUNCH RAMP FOR THE SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT.

V2 SUSTAINED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE.  THE SEAT COVER WAS KNOCKED OFF AND THERE WERE LARGE CRACKS IN THE FIBERGLASS HULL JUST BELOW THE STEERING COLUMN ON THE STARBOARD SIDE.  UNKNOWN IF THERE WAS ANY DAMAAGE CAUSED TO THE INBOARD ENGINE.  V2 WAS TOWED FROM THE SCENE BY AN ADDITION SKI BOAT.
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