RedactedNarrative: On 08/19/2017 while on boat patrol on Smith Mountain Lake (Franklin County) in the area of Bull Run Sgt. and I received a report of a 14 year old female severely injured from a water tubing accident. 
  
  Sgt.1 and I responded to the location of the accident (N37.025890, W-79.626879), 35 Harbor View Cir. in Penhook, and arrived on scene at approximately 11:59 hours.   Upon arrival I observed a large group of people gathered at the dock speaking with and two officers from the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office.
  
   CPO1 informed me a female, had suffered a laceration to her face, left arm, and behind one of her ears. CPO1 said Victim1 had been flown by Life Guard 10 to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital due to the severity of the laceration to her face. CPO1 said the operator of the PWC (VA 7829 BE) was Victim1’s grandfather. 
  
  CPO1 said Operator was going to Roanoke Memorial Hospital to see Victim1 and appeared to be in shock from the incident.   
  
  Witness1 said he was standing at the end of a dock when he saw an older white male operating a PWC with a child sitting behind him. Witness1 said the boy was sitting backwards facing the tube they were towing. Witness1 said there was a young female and male sitting on the tube. Witness1 said the PWC was traveling northeast to leave the cove and then turned toward his dock to head back into the cove. Witness1 said after the PWC turned around, it passed his dock, and accelerated picking up speed. 
  
  Witness1 said he observed the PWC turn back toward the middle of the cove, causing the water tube to be thrown into a propeller of a vessel (VA 6309 BX) lifted up on a dock. Witness1 said he saw the white female strike the propeller with her head and upper body. Witness1 said the white female ended up in the water and the PWC came to a stop. Witness1 added that he did not see where the male child was located after the collision with the propeller. 
  
  Witness1 said he was not sure if the female had struck any other part of the dock during the collision. Witness1 said the PWC was approximately 20 to 25 yards away from the dock when the accident occurred and everyone was wearing life jackets at the time of the accident.  
  
  CPO1 informed me there was a third person on the tube at the time of the accident. Tuber1 said Victim1, Tuber2, and herself were on a tube hooked up to a red Sea Doo. Tuber1 said Victim1’s little brother was sitting on the back of the Sea Doo. Tuber1 said she saw Operator drive the PWC to close to the shoreline and she knew they were going to collide with something. Tuber1 said she jumped off of the tube and when she resurfaced she saw Victim1 lying face down in the water. 
  
  Tuber1 said she flipped Victim1 over and her face was covered in blood. Tuber1 said Victim1 had also suffered a laceration to her left arm and she was starting to shake. Tuber1 thought they had struck a boat motor. Tuber1 said they were going approximately 25 to 30 mph at the time of the accident. Tuber1 said she was sitting on the left side of the water tube, Tuber2 was sitting in the middle and Victim1 was sitting on the right side. 
  
  CPO went to Roanoke Memorial Hospital and spoke to Operator. Operator said he turned the PWC away from the docks adjacent to his lake house, but was not aware the float was outside of a wake. Operator said the wake caused the tube to strike a dock. Operator said after the accident occurred he took the Sea Doo back to his dock and put it in the lift Operator said he did not think he was going over 20 mph at the time of the accident. 
  
  Operator submitted to a preliminary breath test (PBT) and blew a 0.00% BAC at 1350 hours on 08/19/2017. Operator said the last medication he had taken was Gabapentin at approximately 20:00 hours on 08/18/2017. Sgt.1 spoke to a pharmacist and learned that Gabapentin did not affect a person’s ability to operate machinery.  I went to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and met with Operator. Operator was issued a summons (z35816) for 29.1-738 (a) reckless operation of a PWC and a summons (z35817) for 29.1-748 (6) for operating a PWC with excess passengers. The summonses are for Operator to appear at the Franklin County General District Court House on 09/21/2017 at 0830 hours.
  Note: there is not a vessel record enterd for the boat that the tuber hit because it was in a lift; it is considered a fixed object.