Personal Watercraft Accidents
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Personal watercraft (“PWC”) is a type of recreational boat which has become increasingly popular in recent years. Manufacturers estimate that approximately 200,000 PWC’s are sold each year and there are more than one million currently in operation in the United States alone. Although the overall number of recreational boating fatalities has declined in recent years, the number of personal watercraft related fatalities continues to increase. PWC’s are the only type of recreational vessel for which the leading cause of fatalities is not drowning. In personal watercraft fatalities, more persons die from blunt force trauma than from drowning. Some of the safety concerns associated with personal watercraft, death and injuries include counter-intuitive operating characteristics of personal watercraft (off-throttle steering), lack of appropriate operator training and improper and inadequate warnings.
The boating accident attorneys at Baker & Zimmerman, a South Florida law firm, have prosecuted claims against manufacturers of personal watercraft for various defects. One of the firm’s personal watercraft trials was featured on the Court TV network. The firm presently is involved in litigation in personal watercraft or boating accident cases involving Yamaha waverunners and Bombardier Sea Doo models.
