On june 28, 2012 Operator was operating a pwc she had borrowed from a friend and just got through getting fuel.  She took off across the water to go to the sandbar in a northwesterly direction.  She came up to a wake and didn't let off the gas.  When she hit the wake, it threw her up forward into the air.  Her leg caught the handlebar as she was being thrown thus breaking her right leg causing a compound fracture.  She was unable to remember anything after that.  The owner of the pwc came to look for her and she was in the water holding onto the back of the pwc.  The owner went to the nearest house and called 911.  She was transported by ambulance to carolinas medical center in charlotte where she underwent surgery.  Alcohol and/or drugs were not a factor, and the operator was wearing a pfd.
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