RedactedNarrative: ON 9/19/2016 AT APPROXIMATELY 4:49 PM I, INDIANA CONSERVATION OFFICER #1, WAS CONTACTED BY ICO DISPATCH IN REFERENCE TO A BOATING INCIDENT THAT HAD JUST OCCURRED IN HUNTINGTON COUNTY, INDIANA AT THE MAIN BEACH AREA OF SALAMONIE RESERVOIR.  I ARRIVED AT APPROXIMATELY 5:35 PM, AND UPON ARRIVAL I OBSERVED OFFICER #2 TAKING WITNESS STATEMENTS FROM THE PARTIES INVOLVED.  I SPOKE WITH OFFICER #2 WHO ADVISED THAT THE WITNESS STATEMENTS ADVISED THAT BOAT1 WAS OPERATED BY SUBJECT#1 WHO HAD A PASSENGER WITH HIM, SUBJECT#2.  SUBJECT#2 ADVISED THAT WHILE RIDING THE JET SKIS SUBJECT#1 MADE A RIGHT HAND TURN, AND UPON DOING SO THE KILL SWITCH, WHICH WAS HOOKED INTO SUBJECT#1 'S PFD, PULLED OUT CAUSING THE MACHINE TO SHUT DOWN.  BOAT 2, WHICH WAS BEING OPERATED BY SUBJECT#3, THEN COLLIDED WITH BOAT 1.  UPON COLLISION, BOAT 1 STRUCK SUBJECT#1'S SIDE AND WENT OVER BOAT 2.  WITNESS STATEMENTS ADVISED THAT SUBJECT#1 COMPLAINED THAT HIS RIGHT SIDE RIB SECTION WAS HURTING AND THAT IS WHEN EMERGENCY PERSONNEL WAS CONTACTED.
  SUBJECT#1 WAS TRANSFERRED TO PARKVIEW HUNTINGTON PRIOR TO MY ARRIVAL TO THE SCENE.  WHILE I WAS AT THE SCENE OFFICER #3 MET WITH SUBJECT#1.  SUBJECT#1 IS SUFFERING FROM A 10TH RIB FRACTURE ON HIS RIGHT SIDE. (OFFICER #3'S REPORT IS ATTACHED TO THIS REPORT)
  WHILE SPEAKING WITH SUBJECT#2 I OBSERVED HIS FINGERS TO BE SLIGHTLY SWOLLEN.  I ASKED SUBJECT#2 IF HE WAS INJURED IN THE INCIDENT.  SUBJECT#1 ADVISED THAT HE BELIEVES HE BROKE HIS PINKY, RING, AND MIDDLE FINGERS ON HIS RIGHT HAND.  SUBJECT#2 ALSO HAD A VISIBLE ABRASION ON HIS RIGHT ANKLE, WHEN ASKED ABOUT HIS INJURIES SUBJECT#2 ADVISED THAT HE REFUSED MEDICAL TREATMENT.
  I SPOKE WITH SUBJECT#3, OPERATOR OF BOAT 2, ABOUT THE INCIDENT.  SUBJECT#3 ADVISED THAT THEY WERE TRAVELING IN A FAIRLY STRAIGHT LINE AND THAT SUBJECT#1 HAD TURNED IN FRONT OF HIM AND HIS MACHINE STOPPED TOO FAST FOR SUBJECT#3 TO MANEUVER OUT OF THE WAY.  SUBJECT#3 ADVISED THAT HE AND HIS PASSENGER, SUBJECT#4, WERE BOTH NOT INJURED IN THE INCIDENT.
  I THEN WENT AND LOCATED THE JET SKIS, WHICH WERE POSITIONED ON THE BEACH.  I IDENTIFIED BOTH OF THE JET SKIS TO BE MULTICOLORED 1995 YAMAHA WAVE-VENTURES.  SUBJECT#3 WAS OPERATING THE ONE WITH AN INDIANA REGISTRATION OF INxxxxxx AND SUBJECT#1 WAS OPERATING THE ONE WITH AND INDIANA REGISTRATION OF INxxxxxx.  BOTH JET SKIS ARE OWNED AND REGISTERED TO OWNER#1.  WHILE LOOKING AT THE JET SKIS I ASKED OWNER#1 IF THERE WAS ANY DAMAGE TO THE JET SKIS.  OWNER#1 ADVISED THAT THERE WAS NO SERIOUS DAMAGE TO EITHER OF THE JET SKIS.  I DID HOWEVER OBSERVE PAINT TRANSFER FROM THE HULL OF BOAT 2 APPEARING TO BE FROM THE GUNWALE OF THE STARBOARD SIDE OF BOAT 1. 
  
  SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT FROM INDANA CONSERVATION OFFICER #3.
  
  ON 9/19/16, AT APPROXIMATELY 16:50, I WAS NOTIFIED OF A PWC ACCIDENT AT THE SALAMONIE RESERVOIR BEACH AREA IN HUNTINGTON COUNTY.  CONSERVATION OFFICER #1 RESPONDED TO THE SCENE TO INVESTIGATE WHILE I WENT TO PARKVIEW HOSPITAL IN HUNTINGTON TO WAIT FOR A SUBJECT WHO WAS BEING TRANSPORTED VIA AMBULANCE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.  
  I INTERVIEWED THE ONLY SUBJECT WHO RECEIVED MEDICAL TREATMENT (SUBJECT#1) AND THE RESULTS OF MY INVESTIGATION ARE AS FOLLOWS.
  ON 9/19/16, SUBJECT#1 WAS OPERATING A WAVE RUNNER RECENTLY PURCHASED BY HIS MOTHER'S FIANCÉ (OWNER#1) ON SALAMONIE RESERVOIR.  SUBJECT#1 HAD A PASSENGER ON THE WATERCRAFT HE WAS OPERATING NAMED SUBJECT#2.   ADDITIONALLY, ANOTHER PWC OWNED BY OWNER#1 WAS BEING OPERATED BY SUBJECT#3 IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO SUBJECT#1.  SUBJECT#3 WAS RIDING TO THE REAR STARBOARD SIDE OF SUBJECT#1.   
  SUBJECT#1 STATED THAT AS HE WAS OPERATING HIS VESSEL, AT SOME POINT THE SAFETY LANYARD THAT WAS CONNECTED TO HIS LIFE JACKET BECAME UNHOOKED CAUSING THE WATERCRAFT TO STALL.  WHEN THE PWC STALLED, THE NOSE DRIFTED TOWARD THE STARBOARD SIDE AND WAS STRUCK BY THE 2ND PWC BEING OPERATED BY SUBJECT#3.  
  SUBJECT#1 STATED THAT THE NOSE OF SUBJECT#3 VESSEL STRUCK HIM SOMEWHERE IN THE RIB AREA ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS BODY, THROWING HIM AND HIS PASSENGER (SUBJECT#2) INTO THE WATER AND OVERTURNING THEIR VESSEL.  SUBJECT#3 AND HIS PASSENGER ALONG WITH SUBJECT#2 ALL REFUSED MEDICAL TREATMENT AT THE SCENE. 
  I MET SUBJECT#1  AS HE ARRIVED AT THE HOSPITAL ER ENTRANCE AND INTERVIEWED HIM ONCE HE WAS ADMITTED TO A ROOM.  I ASKED SUBJECT#1  IF HE HAD ANY ALCOHOL TO DRINK AND HE RESPONDED NO.  HE ADVISED HE WOULD TAKE A PORTABLE BREATH TEST BUT I HAD NO REASON TO BELIEVE ALCOHOL WAS INVOLVED.  THERE WAS NO ODOR OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES BEING EMITTED FROM SUBJECT#1.  SUBJECT#1'S SPEECH SEEMED A BIT SLOW, HOWEVER THE EMT ADVISED ME THAT HE WAS GIVEN QUITE A BIT OF PAIN MEDICATION EN ROUTE TO THE HOSPITAL WHICH MAY CAUSE HIM TO BE A BIT OUT OF IT.  OFFICER #1 INFORMED ME THAT TWO OTHERS INVOLVED IN THE ACCIDENT AT THE SCENE TOOK BREATH TESTS AND BOTH BLEW .000%.  IT IS MY DETERMINATION THAT ALCOHOL DID NOT PLAY A ROLE IN THIS INCIDENT.  PROBABLE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS APPEAR TO BE RIDER INEXPERIENCE AND FOLLOWING TOO CLOSELY.  
  ALL PARTIES INVOLVED WERE WEARING USCG APPROVED PFD'S.  THE USE LIKELY PLAYED A ROLE IN LIMITING THE INJURIES SUSTAINED BY SUBJECT#1 AS HE WAS STRUCK DIRECTLY ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS BODY.  SUBJECT#1 COMPLAINED OF SORENESS EXTENDING FROM HIS HIP AREA TO HIS SHOULDER ALL ALONG THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS BODY.  HE COMPLAINED OF PAIN RADIATING AROUND INTO HIS BACK AS WELL FROM THE RIGHT SIDE.   SUBJECT#1 HAS FULL RANGE OF MOTION AND NO SPINAL OR HEAD INJURIES ARE SUSPECTED.  AS OF 2000, I AM WAITING ON RESULTS OF A CT SCAN TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF INJURIES SUSTAINED.  
  I DETERMINED THAT SUBJECT#1 DID NOT HAVE A VALID DRIVER'S LICENSE AND WAS OPERATING THE PWC ILLEGALLY.  I EXPLAINED TO SUBJECT#1 THAT OFFICER #1 WILL BE ISSUING HIM A CITATION FOR OPERATING A PWC WITHOUT A VALID DRIVER'S LICENSE.  SUBJECT#1 CLAIMED HE WAS NOT AWARE THAT A DRIVER'S LICENSE WAS REQUIRED TO OPERATE THE WATERCRAFT.  I PROVIDED HIM WITH A BOATING REGULATION GUIDE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE AND ANSWERED A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS REGARDING WATERCRAFT OPERATION REGULATIONS FOR HIM.