On Thursday, September 28th, 2023, at approximately 0900 hours FWC received a report of a boating accident that occurred on September 17th, 2023, approximately 11 days earlier. The incident involved only one vessel, causing injuries while attempting to cross another vessel’s wake. There was no boating or property damage associated with this accident. A female suffered a small fracture to her T12 vertebrate in her spine when she was thrown down to the floor of a vessel when it hit a wake. This accident was not initially reported because the injury was not discovered until an x-ray revealed the injury approximately 10 days later, when the female occupant went to the doctor thinking she had a bruised tail bone that was not healing.; Subject suffered small fracture to T12 vertebrate. Subject was not aware of injury at time of accident. She did not go to doctor until approximately 10 days after.
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