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One of two teenage girls killed in an horrific speed boat accident lived next door to the water park in southwest Queensland where she died.
Paris Wilson, 16, was riding on an inflatable ski tube at Goondiwindi Natural Heritage and Water Park with her younger sister Dodie, 12, and an American exchange student, aged 16, about 3pm (local time).
The tube was being towed by a speed boat driven by Paris and Dodie's 18-year-old sister, Bianca.
The afternoon turned to tragedy when the tube swung out on a turn, flinging the girls up a bank on an island in the dam where they slammed into a tree.
Paris and the exchange student from Maryland in the United States were killed upon impact.
Dodie suffered severe head injuries and was flown to the Royal Brisbane Hospital and then transferred to the Mater Children's Hospital last night.
The girls' mother, Sandy Wilson, said the loss of her daughter rested on a "small judgment error".
"There could have been a small judgment error with the boat turning point," she told brisbanetimes.com.au this morning.
"They are intelligent girls. It just went wrong. I've lost one daughter and I have another daughter fighting for her life in hospital in Brisbane and I'm here with my eldest daughter and my son.”
Her daughters had grown up in the water park, she said, as the family live next door.
"The girls were at the water park all the time. It was a very familiar place to them," Ms Wilson said. "We're not sure whether the ski rope broke."
Ms Wilson described Paris as a sporty teenager.
"She was such a beautiful girl. She was a lively, bright, fun-loving teenager," she said.
Ms Wilson said her eldest daughter Bianca was being supported by family, friends and teachers from St Hilda's College at Southport on the Gold Coast where the sisters were boarders.
"We're not exactly sure what happened, but it's not her fault," she said. "It was an accident, a terrible accident."
Ms Wilson said Bianca holds a full speedboat licence. Police investigations are continuing.
- Brisbane Times
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