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A 1998 National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report revealed that it was not only the large number of jet ski accidents that have occurred, “but the distinctive way in which fatalities occur,” that prompted the Board to examine the nature and design of jet skis, especially in regard to steering loss.
The report stated that, “steering difficulties were evident in many of the personal watercraft accident reports examined in the study.” For example, in Four Bears Park in Michigan, on June 29, 1997, a 29-year-old driver lost control of his Sea Doo. The vessel skidded over the water into a swimming area and struck six children, ages 5 to 12, and then hit a seventh person on the beach.
In Texas, according to the Board’s report, a 24-year-old swerved in front of his mother, lost control, and the 400-pound vessel hit her in the back. She was pronounced dead the next morning. The report stated that the accident “involving a mother and son on a Texas lake illustrates the consequences that can result from steering difficulties.”
The NTSB 1998 report, now a key piece of documentation in liability suits, provides personal injury attorneys with convincing evidence that jet skis are unsafe, and that inherent defects in their design cause numerous injuries and fatalities each year.
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