SUFFOLK, Va. – Suffolk medics say a person was thrown from a boat Saturday morning after the vessel collided with an object in the Nansemond River. Two others on board were not injured.

According to a Facebook post from Suffolk Fire & Rescue, around 1:20 a.m., three boaters were on a 19-foot Carolina skiff in the water on Riverside Drive when the boat struck an “object in the water.”

One of the sailors was thrown overboard by the impact, but medics say the other two on board were able to pull them back onto the boat.

Suffolk Fire & Rescue then towed the damaged boat to Decoy’s in Bennett’s Creek.

Firefighters say one person was moderately injured and taken to the hospital, and two others refused transport.