RedactedNarrative: On July 17, 2020 1 motorboat and 2 PWCs departed from Big Arm, MT on Flathead Lake. Each vessel had only the operator on board. 
  
  Sometime around 1900 hours V3 was leading, V1 was behind and to the right, V2 was behind and to the left. 
  
  V3 made a turn to the right, V1 continued on course, leading over the wake of V3. 
  
  V2 turned right to jump the wake of V3. Both vessels jumped the wake of V3 approximately 20 to 30 feet behind V3. Both V1 and V2 thought the other one was going to turn as they were on the same trajectory. 
  
  It appears V1 tried to avoid collision at the last moment but was unsuccessful. V1 hit V2 directly below the handle bars on the starboard side, which pushed him upward and into the operator of V2.
  
   Both operators were ejected from the PWCs. 
  
  The operator of V3 did not witness the collision, but heard it. He turned around and saw both swimmers in the water, approximately 20 feet behind V3. He turned around and went back to check on them. 
  
  The operator of V2 was in significant pain and holding onto one of the PWCs. The operator of V1 helped load the injured party onto V3 and went back to Skipping Rock Lane, where an ambulance met them. The injured was transported to Kalispell with 6-7 broken ribs, a punctured lung and a fractured pelvis. The operator of V1 sustained only minor bruising.