MADEIRA BEACH, FL \u2014 A New York man is accused of boating under the influence in a Sunday afternoon jet ski crash near Johns Pass, according to a Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office news release. <\/p>\n
Daniel Grubert, 48, of Piermont, New York, was charged with two counts of BUI causing serious bodily injury and one count of reckless operation.<\/p>\n
He was on a rented Yamaha WaveRunner and racing another jet ski when he took his eyes off the direction he was traveling around 2:30 p.m., the sheriff\u2019s office said. <\/p>\n
When Grubert realized a crash was about to happen, he jumped off his jet ski, which crashed into another rented WaveRunner that was operated by 45-year-old Walter Wodzien of Illinois. <\/p>\n
Wodzien and his two passengers, a 7-year-old and an 8-year-old, were thrown from their jet ski, the sheriff\u2019s office said. They were recovered from the water by the Madeira Beach Fire Department.<\/p>\n
The children were brought to a local hospital, one with life-threatening injuries. Wodzien was uninjured in the crash.<\/p>\n
After the crash, Grubert showed signs of impairment and performed poorly on field sobriety tests, investigators said. He was arrested and booked into Pinellas County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADEIRA BEACH, FL \u2014 A New York man is accused of boating under the influence in a Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}