RedactedNarrative: On May 26th, 2019 at approximately 05:10 PM, Officer responded to Santa Fe Lake Park boat ramp to investigate a boating accident involving a single personal watercraft (PWC) involving injuries. 
  
  The following day, May 26th, 2019, at approximately 12:30 PM, I interviewed Operator and her father Father at Shands Children's Hospital.  Operator was in recovery from surgery the prior night to repair her right femur which was fractured just above the knee.  Operator stated she was operating the PWC with her sister riding behind her.  
  
  She followed Subject into Black Lake, but did not see which direction he went.  She proceeded straight southward toward the opposite shore and then proceeded to the west along the shore searching for Subject.  Operator stated she was looking back over her shoulder when she veered from the lake and into the emergent vegetation along the perimeter.  She said she released the throttle, but the PWC continued to travel over the vegetation toward some brush and trees.  She lost steering control and the PWC collided with a tree on the port side gunwale of the bow.  Operator's right leg impacted another tree to the right of the PWC which caused the fracture of her femur.  The collision caused Operator and occupant to be ejected from the PWC into some flooded trees and brush.    The PWC came to rest about three feet to the north of the impacted tree with its bow facing northward.  
  
  Father said Operator had operated the PWC about four times previously on a small private lake.  She had previously completed a FWC endorsed boating safety course and possessed her FWC Boating Safety ID card.  I issued Father a misdemeanor citation for F.S. 327.39(6)(a) Owner/Person in charge of PWC allowing person under 14 years of age to operate.  
  
  Occupant received minor abrasions from tree limbs on both legs and her right arm. Operator’s injuries consisted of a broken right femur just above the knee,  abrasions on the right leg and thigh, a laceration above the right eye, and a bruised right eye.  Surgery was performed where several screws were attached to the broken femur bones.
  