A New York dad has been charged with drunkenly racing a jet ski after crashing and severely injuring two youngsters in Florida, based on cops.
Daniel Patrick Grubert, from Piermont in Rockland County, was racing another person on a rented Yamaha WaveRunner in Madeira Seaside close to St. Petersburg on Sunday when he seemed away from the place he was going, based on the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Workplace.
When he realized he was about to crash, he jumped off — leaving it to smash into one other jet ski being pushed by a 45-year-old man with two youngsters, ages 7 and eight, on board, police mentioned.
The 2 youngsters have been launched from the jet ski and rescued from the water by the Madeira Seaside Hearth Division.
They have been rushed to an area hospital — one with life-threatening accidents and the opposite with non-life-threatening accidents.
Grubert confirmed indicators of impairment and “carried out poorly” on subject sobriety exams, based on the sheriff’s workplace.
He was arrested and charged with two counts of sailing beneath the affect inflicting critical bodily damage and one rely of reckless operation of a vessel.
He was booked on the Pinellas County Jail and launched on Tuesday morning on a mixed $100,500 bond, jail data present.
The motive force of the hit jet ski — Walter Wodzien, 45 — was additionally thrown off however not harm, cops mentioned.
