On July 1st, 2023, Game Warden received a call of a boat accident on Lake LBJ near Splash boat rental.  Upon arrival all occupants who were on the rented vessel were gone and one victim was air flighted to Senton in Round Rock Texas. During an interview with the operator, he stated two of his buddies were tubing and they wanted to get back in the boat.  He thought he had put the vessel in neutral, but it was at idle speed.  His two buddies got off the tube and swam to the latter on the tritoon boat while his wife jumped off the port side of the vessel to get on the tube. His wife decided she didn't want to get on the tube, so she swam around the motor trying to get back to the ladder.  During this time, she stated it felt like the motor sucked her in when the prop struck her on the top of her shin bone.  She got back on the vessel and He administered a tourniquet and called emergency services.  Operator returned to Rental where star flight picked up victim and flew to Round Rock with non life threating injuries.
0466 LYNDON B. JOHNSON
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