Rubber ring collides with passing Yacht.

A 14-year-old girl who was being pulled on a rubber ring by a speedboat has been left critically injured in hospital after it collided with a passing yacht on a Suffolk River.

The teenager had to be air lifted to Ipswich hospital, however she was later transferred to Addenbrooks where she is currently in a critical condition, with a fractured skull and brain injuries; she also has a broken leg.

An investigation had been launched in to the accident to discover how the rubber ring and yacht were in the same path.

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13/05/2008 09:08:42