Posted on Jul 10, 2012

The jet ski accident attorneys at Denena & Points note a deeply disturbing and tragic jet ski crash that gravely injured two children over the weekend. The 11-year-old stepson of the well-known R&B artist Usher has reportedly been declared brain dead after a tragic jet ski accident involving a family friend. 11-year-old Kyle Glover and a friend were being towed in an inner tube when a jet ski driven by a 38-year-old family friend ran into the 2 young people in a tragic jet ski accident. Kyle Glover was struck in the head by the collision.

The jet ski accident occurred on Lake Lanier in Georgia on Friday. The two injured children were flown to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Reports say that Kyle Glover exhibited no brain activity after being admitted to the hospital. The other child, a teen girl, received a broken arm and deep lacerations to her head. She was reportedly in stable condition. (Source: cbsnews.com, khou, 7/9/2012)

Young Kyle Glover is the son of Usher’s ex-wife, Tameka Foster. Both parents were with the boy at the hospital hoping for his recovery. Our jet ski accident attorneys deeply sympathize with the parents, family, and friends of Kyle Glover as they struggle to cope with the aftermath this terrible accident. Our hearts and prayers are with them in this difficult situation.

Officers stated that alcohol was not a factor in the accident and that they were continuing to investigate. Our jet ski accident attorneys have written previously about the hidden crash dangers of personal watercraft (“jet skis”). Jet ski design does not permit the driver to turn the vehicle once the throttle has been released to try and brake or slow the vehicle.

Jet skis have no real braking mechanism and, depending on their speed, could require distances that might exceed a football field in length in order to stop. In addition, once the throttle has been released to initiate slowing of the vehicle, the driver can no longer steer the jet ski.

Many people on jet skis, when they sense an impending collision or obstacle ahead, react instinctively as they would when driving other types of vehicle. They release the accelerator throttle to slow and then they try to steer away from the danger up ahead. But once they’ve stopped accelerating, they no longer have the power to steer. And they continue forward to crash into the people, boats, or obstacles ahead. Jet skis have no exterior propeller and the resulting injuries tend primarily to be blunt force head and chest area trauma.

Usher’s family friend may have been another jet ski driver taken by surprise by the hidden design pitfall of the personal watercraft. He no doubt feels terrible remorse over the accident he couldn’t control. He joins the ranks of many other people who’ve suffered along with friends and relatives when they’ve experienced just such a crash due to the loss of steering design flaw inherent in jet skis.

Somehow these types of accidents between family and friends seem particularly horrific. Our jet ski accident attorneys sympathize with all parties involved in this and continue to call upon the makers of personal watercraft to take responsibility for the jet ski design pitfall and find a solution to prevent the large number of tragic, traumatic accidents it continues to cause. Read more on this design problem in personal watercraft and the dangerous accidents and injuries it causes in our article linked to the title of this post.

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