Police and fire crews in Worcester are now treating a 4 year old girl who reportedly was struck by a jet ski in the Sears Island section. Authorities are now on the scene and report the child was pulled from the water by another boater. The exact condition of the child is not known. The child reportedly has head injuries. Crime scene units and the Environmental Police have also been summoned to the scene.
WORCESTER— An apparent collision between two personal watercraft yesterday on Indian Lake left a young girl seriously injured and police and environmental officers scrambling to determine what caused the accident.
Later, a woman who has lived with traffic on the lake for 25 years said, “It was accident that was bound to happen.”
As new information came available last night, so did the response of authorities.
The first 911 calls at 5:45 p.m. to the Worcester Fire Department said help was needed for two injured people who were thrown into the water when their craft hit a retaining wall at 70 Sears Island Drive.
Police and a full complement from the Fire Department including a scuba team went to the scene. Environmental police were considered, but not called in, according to a spokeswoman for the environmental police in Boston.
Firefighters said the injured man and young girl had been rescued from the water by people in a tow boat and taken to a home at 62 Sears Island Drive.
District Fire Chief James F. Callery said firefighters first saw the injured girl lying in the bow of the boat with a head injury. The man was already ashore and had a rib injury.
The chief said the girl received first aid from the crew of Engine 11 based at the Greendale station. An EMS crew from UMass Memorial Medical Center took the pair to the University campus, officials said.
Later in the evening, state environmental police arrived and conferred with Worcester detectives. Flatbed trucks were brought in and the watercraft were loaded and driven away. Detectives were taking statements from witnesses, and weren’t ready to provide information such as the names of the injured.
A woman who wished to remain anonymous said she was near the accident which occurred off a corner lot at 62 Sears Island Drive, directly across from Morgan Point Landing.
“I was turned the other way when I heard the impact. I looked out beyond the lighthouse and saw a man standing in the water with a child in his arms. Debris from the Jet Skis was floating nearby.
“Three people were involved in the crash, operators of two vehicles and the little girl,” the woman said. “It looks like one of them cut the corner a little too close and hit the oncoming Jet Ski.”
She pointed to the crash scene beyond the lighthouse and said, “It happens every year. There are swimmers on both sides of the point and the water skiers come too close. They aren’t educated on how to handle their machines and they don’t know the laws. Some of them don’t care. Most of them aren’t from here.
“Yesterday they were off Morgan Point spraying people on the beach,” she said.
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