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PWC Accident Review

Collisions with fixed objects:

Rockaway, NEW YORK; June 30th, 2001

http://www.sptimes.com/News/070200/SouthPinellas/Briefs__Man_injured_r.shtml

Collisions between friends and family members:

http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040720/NEWS/107200015

http://www.freep.com/news/metro/death16_20000716.htm

Rectal/Vaginal lacerations as a result of “spills” from PWC into trajectory of water jet blast:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/aug00/waubrfs15081400a.asp

PWC runs into skier/tuber/ person in tow/ windsurfer, swimmer:

Pleasanton Hill, PENNSYLVANIA; July 4th, 2000

Underage PWC operation:

(links being repaired)

Loss of steering control:

From the BBC; May 1999 

Between two watercraft:

LAKE TAHOE, CA - JULY 19th, 2004

Explosions:

CASS LAKE (near Pontiac) MICHIGAN, June 15th, 2001

Wake jumping:

2 Fatalities; HILLSDALE COUNTY, MICHIGAN July 4th, 2000

Between watercraft and a boat:

  DELTA WATERWAYS, Stockton, CA July 5th, 1999

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