RedactedNarrative: On 05/23/16 at approximately 8:30pm operator was operating an unregistered 11' boat traveling North on the Withlacoochee river approximately quarter mile south of Wysong boat ramp. Subject stated he was traveling at approximately 20mph and made a turn and struck a patch of weeds and the motor pitched up in the air striking him in the left arm, the motor did not have a cover on it which caused the flywheel of the motor to be exposed. The flywheel from the motor struck Victim in the left arm causing a laceration and dislocation of the left shoulder. Victim said that after the accident he paddled the vessel to a private property on CR 315 and made contact with a good Samarian who called EMS and Victim was taken to Citrus memorial hospital. Victim had a laceration which needed 37 staples on his left arm and a possible dislocated left shoulder. The vessel was not secured to the shoreline and floated down river where it sunk in approximately four feet of water. The two other occupants were not injured.
  