ON 7/15/2023, AT APPROXIMATELY 6:30PM, A BOATING INCIDENT OCCURRED ON BADIN LAKE NEAR THE CIRCLE DRIVE BOATING ACCESS AREA.  VESSEL 1 WAS A PWC WITH UNKNOWN REGISTRATION INFORMATION.  THE OWNER OF VESSEL 1 IS OWNER, WHO WAS ALLOWING OPERATOR TO OPERATE IT AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT.  

OPERATOR LAUNCHED THE VESSEL FROM OWNER'S RESIDENCE.  AT APPROXIMATELY 5:00PM, OPERATOR'S MOTHER, INJURED, WAS RIDING AS A PASSENGER BEHIND OPERATOR.  BOTH OCCUPANTS WERE WEARING PFDS.  THE INCIDENT OCCURRED AS OPERATOR WAS HEADING TOWARD OWNER'S RESIDENCE FROM THE CIRCLE DRIVE BOATING ACCESS AREA.  OPERATOR ACCELERATED ABRUPTLY CAUSING INJURED TO FALL OFF THE BACK TOWARDS THE JET PROPULSION OF THE PWC.  INJURED STATED SHE LET GO OF OPERATOR TO ADJUST HER LIFE JACKET WHEN HE ACCELERATED, WHICH CAUSED HER TO FALL OFF.  THE PRESSURE FROM THE JET FORCED WATER INTO INJURED'S RECTUM AND CAUSED INTERNAL DAMAGE TO HER ORGANS.  OWNER WHO WAS ON ANOTHER PWC AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT ASSISTED INJURED WITH HIS PWC TAKING HER BACK TO HIS RESIDENCE WHERE 911 WAS CALLED.  THEY ATTEMPTED TO STOP THE BLEEDING WHILE WAITING FOR FIRST RESPONDERS TO ARRIVE.  INJURED WAS THEN TRANSPORTED TO MOORE REGIONAL HOSPITAL.  INJURED WAS THEN TRANSPORTED TO THE UNC HOSPITAL TO UNDERGO MULTIPLE SURGERIES ON HER INTERNAL ORGANS.

DUE TO THE OPERATOR'S INEXPERIENCE, ATTENTION AND EXCESSIVE SPEED, OPERATOR CAUSED INJURED TO TALL OVERBOARD AND SUSTAINED SEVERAL LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES.  THERE WAS NO PROPERTY DAMAGE DURING THIS INCIDENT.  AS A RESULT, NO ONE WAS ISSUED CHARGES.  ALCOHOL AND DRUGS WERE NOT A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN THIS INCIDENT.

***PLEASE NOTE:  THIS REPORT WAS MANUALLY ENTERED INTO BARD DUE TO CONTINUED TRANSMISSION ISSUES BETWEEN REPORT BEAM AND BARD. ***

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