Attorney Jeb Butler talks about boating accidents and how these accidents occur. We also cover what kind of boats are involved, who is involved in these accidents, and why these accidents happen. For more information about Boating Accidents in Georgia, see https://butlerfirm.com/who-is-responsible-for-a-boating-accident-in-georgia/

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►Georgia summers are hot. And when it gets hot, people head up to the lake to relax and have a good time. It's a good thing but often in the summer we see an influx of calls from people about boating accidents, people who've been hurt in a boating accident or who have a loved one who's been hurt in a boating accident.
►So today I thought we'd take a minute and talk about that. We'll go through how boating accidents occur, the kinds of boats that can be involved, who's liable or who's responsible in a boating accident, and why they occur.
►So first, as to how injuries happen in boating accidents, one of the most common ones and obvious ones, really, is a collision. This could be because someone's going too fast, somebody's not paying attention, or any combination of those things.
►Another one that we sometimes see are propeller injuries. And these can be really bad. If someone gets tangled up in a propeller of an operating boat, that's obviously a really bad thing, and that can happen when someone who's driving the boat isn't paying close enough attention and backs over someone in the water. The injuries can be really hard on the people who sustain them. Here's an example. This is an X-ray from one of our clients who was caught up in boat propeller and you can see what happened. The propeller turned her tibia and fibula into something that looks like a bundle of sticks from a beaver dam. I mean, just tore it apart.
►Another way that these happen is ejections. Sometimes someone flies out of the boat, either because of a defect in the boat, like the way the boat was designed. Perhaps it was designed in a way that was unstable when the boat turned or involves a wake and people get thrown out. Or maybe the driver just isn't paying attention or is driving too fast and someone gets thrown under the boat, they can be hurt when they land in the water, when they land in the water and then another boat hits them or when they land on a hard object like a dock or dry land.
►Another way these things can happen is with skiers or tubers. You can imagine how this happens. If there's a skier or a tuber behind the boat and someone isn't paying close enough attention, they can collide with that person and the result, obviously, are no good.
►The types of boats that we see. The first I'll start with is the old pontoon boat. They're not fast but they're popular and a lot of times people on pontoon boats get very relaxed, sometimes with substances or without. And so you can see propeller type injuries on pontoon boats.
►We also see injuries sometimes, excuse me, in runabouts. These are sort of your basic boats. Some people call them speedboats. And when they're unstable, people can get thrown out, and even have those ejection injuries that we talked about earlier.
►And then of course we have problems on jet skis. If a jet ski hits something, there's obviously no occupant protection. There's nothing to protect the rider most of the time so collisions with jet skis tend to produce injuries. Often, a lot of times, they can be driven too fast and people get ejected off the back of a jet ski, maybe into a hard object or something like that.

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