RedactedNarrative: EPO responded to a boating accident that occurred on Johnson’s Pond involving two vessels on July 8, 2015.  At the scene were Coventry Fire and Coventry Police.  Coventry Fire was treating one of the injured who was later transported to RI Hospital.    According to a witness statement, two Jet Skis, one operated by Operator1, were trailing a pontoon boat traveling at a high rate of speed back and forth jumping the pontoon’s wake.  The witness said both jet skis were operating erratically at that time.  She then saw one of the jet ski’s  go around the back of the pontoon from west to east, it then turn south and collided head-on with a 16’ Cajun Bass Boat operated by Operator2.  The jet ski operator, Operator1 was thrown into the water.  Passengers from the Pontoon assisted Operator1 and helped him onto the Pontoon.  
  
  Mr. Operator1 was bleeding heavily from his injury.   Operator2 who was operating the Bass Boat said he saw the Jet Ski coming at him so fast that he only had time to turn his boat slightly to the left.  The jet ski struck the Bass Boat’s starboard bow breaking the trolling motor bracket, skeg, and denting the lower unit of the trolling motor.  The deck separated from the hull at the bow.  About 12 inches of gel coat peeled off the keel also braking off the eye bolt.  There were also fractures in the fiberglass on the hull.   
  
  The Jet Ski had significant damage on the starboard bow.  After EPO spoke with the owner of the Pontoon, and operator of the other Jet Ski, he detected a smell of alcoholic beverage.  Both stated that they had drank but not much.   EPO then searched the boating safety database and found that Operator1 was not certified by state law to operate a PWC.  EPO then met Operator1 at RI Hospital.  He read him his rights and requested that he submit to a chemical test.  Mr. Operator1 refused and asked his wife to sign the rights form for him.  Mr. Operator1 was charged with Reckless Operation of a PWC, Chemical Test Refusal (BUI) and Boater Safety Card Required.