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Marine Accident Injures Washington Twp. Woman

Accidents | Fri, 07/04/2008 - 10:10 pm | Read 1928 | Commented 6 | Emailed 0
Tags: new jersey state police marine unit, ocean city, ocean city police department

By Harry B. Scheeler Jr.

Upper Township firefighters assist helicopter crew loading victim of personal watercraft aqccident into aircraft July 4. Photo by Harry B. Scheeler Jr.

OCEAN CITY -- Two personal watercraft collided off the coast here in late afternoon of July 4; one victim was seriously injured.

According to Sgt. Stephen Jones, Allison Lang, 43, of Washington Township was airlifted to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center City Trauma Division by South Star Medevac with a back injury.

South Star flight medics reported the victim to be confused and combative when they radioed the hospital with an inbound report.

The operator of the second watercraft refused care on scene, according to Jones.

The accident is under investigation by State Police Marine Services Division at Station Atlantic City.

No further patient information was available.

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Tue, 07/08/2008 - 12:31pm - Posted by: Anonymous

taxes are way to high in NJ. the driver who crashed probably had that on thier mind and couldnt concentrate

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Mon, 07/07/2008 - 2:42pm - Posted by: Anonymous

I dont know who told you or were you got your info from but you could never take the state police issued boating license test online. The class that the USCG gives is a minimum of 8hrs. The test you use to take down at motor vehicle was never any good for a PWC. The law went into effect in 2007.

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Sun, 07/06/2008 - 7:44pm - Posted by: Anonymous

All NJ boat operators NOW must attend a written USCG training class and must take a test. The course is at lest 4-5 hours long and you must pass the test. This is a new law as of this year. Previously, all that was required was an online test. This is a new law. That is the law that the first reader was probably referring to.

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Sun, 07/06/2008 - 3:28pm - Posted by: Anonymous

WOW. How do you know that the responsible PWC operator was the one hurt. What stricter boating laws are u talking about. The only thing that is being enforce is that the older people need boating licensens. its still the same age for a PWC and that age is 16. Before you run your mouth get the facts

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Sat, 07/05/2008 - 2:59pm - Posted by: Anonymous

Wow, two PWC hit each other? Isn't that hard to do? Must not be alot of water to practice back in Washington Twp. Stay off the water if you don't know what your doing!

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Sat, 07/05/2008 - 11:02am - Posted by: Anonymous

Once again, some idiot that should not be operating a PWC causes a crash. The responsible PWC operators are hurt everytime some irresponsible moron causes a crash. I was out on the 4th and quickly decided to get off the water. There were too many idiots riding recklessly. I applaud the stricter boating laws, we need to the police to enforce them now.



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