RedactedNarrative: On July 26, 2020 at approximately 1922 hrs I Corporal of the Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) heard on VHF Marine Radio Channel 16 a report of an injured child on a personal watercraft (PWC) at Ft. Armistead Park on the Patapsco River. I immediately contacted DNR Communications and requested NRP Officers on the Patapsco River in Anne Arundel County to respond to the accident scene. I boarded my patrol boat on Middle River in Baltimore County and responded also. 
  
  NRP Ofc. arrived on scene prior to me and they told me they saw the child victim being tended to by Baltimore City Fire EMS for a laceration on his neck. The Officers also spoke with the PWC Operator and father of Victim, Operator, and they learned that the PWC ran into a fishing line that was sticking out across the water off of the fishing pier at Ft. Armistead Park. Victim was transported by Baltimore City Fire EMS to Johns Hopkins Hospital. Ofc. took photos of the PWC and they are attached to this report. 
  
  On July 27, 2020 Ofc. met Operator to deliver a NRP-425A (Witness/Victim Statement).
  
  On July 30, 2020 I went to Operator's residence to pick-up his completed statement (attached to this report) and to learn more details of the incident. Operator told me that his son Victim was sitting in front of him, between him and the PWC handlebars, at the time of the accident. They were approximately 50-60 feet from the Ft. Armistead Park fishing pier and moving at an average speed when the PWC ran into a fishing line that was across the water. The fishing line moved up over the bow and handlebars and caught Victim in the neck under the chin. This caused a 6 inch laceration on Victim neck that required sutures at Johns Hopkins Hospital. 
  
  Operator operated the PWC to the Ft. Armistead Park boat ramp and called 911. I asked Operator if he had taken a Boaters Safety Education course prior to operating the PWC since he was born after July 1, 1972. He told me he had not. I also told him that it appeared that he violated the PWC speed/distance regulation which states a PWC must be operated at a speed of 6 knots or less when within 100 feet of a structure, in this case a fishing pier. Operator told me he was unaware of both of these regulations.
  
  I issued Operator warnings for the following:
  
  MR 08.18.02.05C         Failure of operator of PWC Born After July 1, 1972 to Possess a Boater Safety Education Certificate
  
  MR 08.18.02.05K         Operate PWC Over 6 Knots w/In 100 ft of Structure
  
  
  All events occurred in Baltimore City, Maryland.
  