Rubber ring collides with passing Yacht.
Posted on May 13th 2008
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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