RedactedNarrative: AT 5:15PM ON MAY 31, 2021, V1 OPERATOR AND V2 OPERATOR WERE OPERATING TWO PERSONAL WATERCRAFT ON LAKE GASTON NEAR MILE MARKER 11. THE TWO WERE RUNNING SIDE BY SIDE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO ONE ANOTHER AT A SPEED OF APPROXIMATELY 30MPH.  THEY WERE TRAVELING IN THE SAME DIRECTION TOWARDS A FRIEND'S BOAT.  THEY BOTH REALIZED THAT THE BOAT THEY WERE TRAVELING TOWARDS WAS NOT WHO THEY THOUGHT IT WAS.  V1 OPERATOR WAS TRAVELING ON THE STARBOARD SIDE OF V2 OPERATOR. AT THIS TIME, BOTH OPERATORS TURNED INTO EACH OTHER.  THE JET SKI OPERATED BY V1 OPERATOR IMPACTED THE STARBOARD SIDE OF THE JET SKI OPERATED BY V2 OPERATOR.  THIS CRUNCHING IMPACT, AT A HIGH SPEED, BROKE V2 OPERATOR'S FEMUR AND CAUSED EXTENSIVE AND DEEP DAMAGE TO BOTH WATERCRAFT.  A GOOD SAMARITAN STOPPED TO HELP THE BOYS OUT OF THE WATER AND TRANSPORTED THEM TO EATON'S FERRY MARINA.  V2 OPERATOR WAS TRANSPORTED BY HELICOPTER TO DUKE HOSPITAL.  V1 OPERATOR SUSTAINED NO INJURIES.
  
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