Manatee County Emergency Medical Services transported Parrish resident Reese Wilson, 22, on New Year’s Eve to HCA Florida Blake Hospital in Bradenton due to a head laceration following a boating crash.
EMS and three Holmes Beach police officers arrived at the Kingfish Boat Ramp, 752 Manatee Ave., around 5:06 p.m. Dec. 31 in response to reports of a boat crash.
A boater escorted another vessel — with Wilson and her boyfriend, Mason Miller, 21, of Bradenton, aboard — to the boat ramp around 5:20 p.m.
Wilson, who was placed in an ambulance, was “alert” and “oriented” despite having a laceration above her left eye, according to a police report.
The officers informed the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission about the matter.
An FWC officer told police to keep those involved with the crash at the scene and to remove nothing from the vessel.
The officers spoke with Miller, who had been piloting the vessel and provided a sworn statement about the crash.
Miller also called a friend who was onboard the vessel to ask him, upon police request, to return to the scene to provide testimony.
An FWC officer arrived at the boat ramp to conduct an investigation, but had no body camera, so a Holmes Beach police officer assisted during interviews with the people involved.
The FWC did not provide a report on the case before The Islander’s press deadline.
Wilson told The Islander Jan. 4 that she was feeling well following the crash.