On the evening of June 28, 2012, I, Conservation Police Officer, was contacted by CPO who were out on water patrol of the IL River in the Seneca area. They advised me to respond to an injured subject who was being transported from the river to the Morris Hospital with an apparant back injury. I arrived at Morris Hospital at 6:25pm, and met with the injured subject. He was in serious visible pain when I entered his room in the Emergency Room. I identified myself as Conservation Police, and he gave me his name and personal information upon request. He stated several times he is in the most pain he has ever felt in his life. I asked him who the operator of the jet ski was. Victim said that he was in another boat sitting on a beach, and a guy he did not know was giving rides on the tube. He got on the tube, and the operator was going at a high rate of speed when he was thrown off the tube. I asked Victim if he hit some object in the water (like a rock or something). He stated he did not hit anything, he hit the water. I asked him again if he knew the operator, and he stated he might know his first name but otherwise did not know him.
I also made contact with a subject who was in the boat with Victim. She stated she did not pay attention to Victim when he got on the tube with the unidentified male subject. She could not provide any information to add about the subject. She did say it may have been a yellow or yellow and black jet ski, but otherwise could not recall. 
I spoke to the nurse in charge, and she stated that Victim will go for a X-Ray and Catscan to determine the extent of his apparant back injury. He was taken away on 2 occasions for those 2 tests. 
I asked Victim how much he had to drink, and he replied 5-6 beers. He stated they were out on the river for about 2 hours when this incident occurred. He did say that he thought the jet ski was going as fast as it possibly could go at the time he was flipped off. 
After about an hour the nurse came to me and advised that Victim had fractures in his lower vertabrae. 
I asked Victim if there was anything else he could tell me about the incident, and he stated he could not. I collected his necessary contact information, and departed from the hospital. I advised CPO''s of the information I learned. They advised me they could not locate the jet ski in question.
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