The family of a young man wants to hold Mississippi Power and the Gulfport Yacht Club responsible for the devastating injuries that the man sustained in a horrific yachting accident that occurred when his sailboat came into contact with live power lines. The young man is lucky to be alive after the accident, and he is still working on recovering from his injuries. Doctors have had to amputate both of his legs as well as one of his arms, and his entire body got severely burned. He is currently recovering from his burns and injuries, and the recovery process is expected to be slow, as is customary for burn victims.
The complaint that has been filed by the man’s family against Mississippi Power accuses the company of failing to maintain the power lines properly. In the aftermath of an accident that nearly cost them the young man that they love, his family and friends are wondering why the company allowed power lines to be present in an area where sailboats with tall masts go frequently. The power lines that the boat struck reach across the southwestern corner of the yacht club parking lot in an area where boats, including boats with tall masts like the one involved in the accident, are often present.
This terrible accident has got a lot of people in the yachting community on the Gulf Coast and elsewhere thinking about what they can do to prevent similar accidents from happening. For example, in the nearby community of Pass Christian, officials at the Pass Christian Yacht Club are asking the city and the harbor master to install barricades in the one location in its harbor where they believe that a similar accident could occur. All of the other electrical wirings in the harbor is underground, but there is one place where four power poles are located in proximity to a boat parking area. Yacht club officials feel the location of those power poles poses a danger to people who are on boats with tall masts, like the one that was involved in the aforementioned accident. Hopefully, the barricades will get put in soon, and other yacht clubs in other communities on the Gulf Coast and elsewhere will examine their harbors to see whether they are as safe as they can be.
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