On the afternoon of 7/30/2023, I Cpl. and Sgt. were patrolling Jackson Lake when we received a call from the Butts County Sheriff's office about a possible boating incident at Lloyd Shoals Park.  We responded to the area and found EMS leaving with the victim.  

Sgt. and I interviewed the witnesses that were in the boat with the victim (friends and family). Each witness stated that Victim was wake boarding and just fell normally.  They explained that a previous attempt at wake boarding had resulted in a fall that appeared to be much worse than the fall where she was injured. 

The vessel owner explained that he was driving the vessel that was towing the victim. He stated that when the victim fell, he nor any other passenger's, noticed anything unusual about the fall.  However, he stated that as he pulled his vessel around to pick up the victim he could hear her sobbing in pain. He and the other passengers, got the victim onboard his vessel and transported her to LLoyd Shoals Park where local EMS evaluated her condition and transported her to Piedmont Macon Hospital where she was seen by Dr..  I spoke with the victims father after the incident while he was at the hospital. He advised that the victim was determined to have a fracture in her right tibia. She was treated and released from the hospital.

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