A Hawke's Bay businessman underwent lengthy surgery on his face yesterday, after being struck in the head by a moving jet ski.
Tom McKimm, part of the Big Save Furniture chain, had been racing on a private lake when he fell from the jet ski he was driving and was hit by another which had been following close behind.
Last Sunday's accident resulted in multiple facial fractures which required an operation at Waikato Hospital.
"It's one of those things, when you're 35 you think you are bullet-proof and 55-feet high," father Ray McKimm said.
"He fractured a number of bones in his forehead, which needed the surgery."