RedactedNarrative: On 09/02/2017 at about 1312 hours deputies were dispatched to a trauma at the Country Club boat ramp on Hayden Lake. When we arrived we determined it was a reportable boat crash due to injuries obtained while wake surfing. We conducted a safety inspection on the involved vessel. The boat passed inspection with all required equipment. 
  After talking with the occupants that were onboard the boat during the crash, the following events were stated: Victim was getting positioned to be pulled behind the boat on a surfboard and Operator was driving the boat. Three people were sitting on the starboard side, in that order from bow to stern, and one person was sitting on the sundeck with his feet on the seat inside the vessel observing using the USCG approved ski flag. 
  Operator stated that they were about 400’ out from the Country Club docks and about 120’ south when he increased the speed of the boat to the preset of 9.8mph. When Victim was trying to get up onto the board he fell after about 5-6 seconds of being towed and let go of the rope. Operator turned the vessel around to retrieve Victim. When they reached him Victim complained of severe pain in his hip or leg and was unable to move his leg. Subject jumped into the water to help him to the vessel. The remaining occupants on the vessel assisted him onboard by lifting him up by his lifejacket and they drove him to the Country Club dock. 
  Northern Lakes Fire and Rescue transported Victim from the dock to Kootenai Health for treatment. We obtained written witness statements from all of the occupants and had Operator fill out an IBARD report. 
  We later contacted Victim at the hospital and collected his statement. He advised that he had suffered a spiral fracture high in his left femur likely caused by a twisting motion while on the surfboard. All of the witness statements were consistent with each other and with our observations.
  