A woman in a powerboat was killed when she was hit by a jet ski. Jane Walker was a passenger on a rigid inflatable boat when it turned close to a water bike ridden by a 17-year-old which was jumping across its wake in the Menai Strait between Anglesey and the mainland.
At the inquest in Caernarfon in Gwynedd, Home Office pathologist Dr Brian Rodgers said that the jet ski hit Mrs Walker, of Cheadle in Staffordshire, in the collision. The 52-year-old pharmacy technician, suffered internal injuries. There was a significant head injury, as well as spinal cord damage and she died within a short time of the collision from head, neck and chest injuries.
North Wales Live reports that widower Kevin Walker said a paramedic had given his wife pain relief and she collapsed. "I’m convinced that’s when she died," he said. Mr Walker said he’d been informed that she was given morphine but his wife had a collapsed lung and the drug could suppress the respiratory system. The widower was also unhappy at how the spinal injury patient had been removed up a rough slipway.
