Texas Woman Drowns in Lake Lewisville After Falling Off PWC

[Dollar Bill]

Local news is reporting that a woman and 2 children fell off of a sitdown jetski near The Colony. A bystander rescued the 2 children, but the woman is still missing. Search and Rescue teams have been looking for her for the last hour. I don't know if they weren't wearing life jackets or what.

Online article just posted here;
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa060514_mo_lewisvillemissing.4045b81b.html

[Dollar Bill]

They found the body. Apparently there were 4 on board, with the woman and 2 children falling off. Still no details on exactly what happened or how.

[sjkawgirl]

WHAT?!? News 5 just showed the ski to to be a stand-up?!? And the woman was not wearing a life jacket.

[Dollar Bill]

Here's another article with more information;

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa060514_mo_lewisvillemissing.4045b81b.html

Mom drowns in Lewisville Lake after jet ski fall

10:33 PM CDT on Sunday, May 14, 2006
By BERT LOZANO / WFAA-TV

Family members waited and watched as divers searched Lake Lewisville for the missing mother.

A mother drowned in Lewisville Lake after a fall from a jet ski while spending Mother's Day with her family.

Two children and the woman's husband were reported to be among the four who fell off the jet ski. While the children were rescued by a bystander, the 35-year-old woman remained missing until dive teams pulled her body from the water an hour after she went under near Stewart Creek Park.

Paramedics attempted to revive the woman before sending her off to Methodist Dallas Medical.

Witnesses and Lewisville firefighters said the woman had been on a jet ski with a man and her two daughters.

"They weren't even going fast," said witness Luis Ramirez. "They were turning on the jet ski and it flipped over"

Witness Christopher Wells said screams alerted him of the emergency.

"The next thing I knew, I turned around [and] saw everybody off the jet ski and the little girl screaming and hollering," said witness Christopher Wells.

Wells said he rushed in on his jet ski to reach the victims.

"I just jumped on it, and I grabbed the kids first like he wanted me to," he said. "Then I grabbed him out of the water and he said 'No, my girlfriend, my girlfriend.'"

Others also rushed to try and help.

"He brought the children back and I went out with him to dive for her, but there was no way to get to her," said another witness.

Lewisville fire officials said the woman was not wearing a life vest when divers recovered her body.

"The best thing is to wear a life vest [and] make sure everybody on the lake has a life vest on," said Asst. Chief Van Weese, The Colony Fire Department. "Don't overload boats."