VESSEL 2 AND VESSEL 3 WERE TIED TOGETHER DRIFTING.  NAVIGATION LIGHTS WERE ALL ON ON BOTH VESSELS.  OPERATORS OF BOTH VESSELS WERE STANDING ON THE FORWARD PORTION OF THEIR BOWS JUST BEFORE COLLISION OCCURRED.  OPERATOR OF VESSEL 3 STATED HE RETRIEVED A HAND-HELD SPOT LIGHT AND WAS HOLDING IT IN HIS HAND PRIOR TO COLLISION.  OPERATORS AND PASSENGERS STATED THEY NOTICED VESSEL 1 TRAVELING IN THEIR DIRECTION APPROX 1/2 MILE AWAY.  OPERATORS STATED THAT VESSEL 1 CONTINUED ON COURSE TOWARD THEIR VESSELS AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED AND THAT VESSEL 1 HAD BRIGHT INTERIOR LIGHTS ON AND WAS PLAYING LOUD MUSIC AS IT APPROACHED THEM.  ALL PARTIES ON VESSELS 2 AND 3 STATE THEY BEGAN YELLING AND WAVING ATTEMPTING TO  GET VESSEL 1'S ATTENTION SO THAT IT WOULD TURN.  OPERATOR OF VESSEL 3 ALSO FLASHED SPOT LIGHT AT VESSEL 1.  OPERATOR OF VESSEL 2 STATED THAT JUST SECONDS BEFORE IMPACT HE DOVE INTO THE WATER TO AVOID VESSEL 1.  HE STATED THAT VESSEL 1 DID STRIKE HIS FEET DRIVING HIM 10 TO 12 FEET DOWN INTO THE WATER.  VESSEL 1 STRUCK VESSEL 2 STARBOARD FORWARD TOWARD THE BOW OF VESSEL 2 WITH VESSEL 1 PORT SIDE FORWARD.  VESSEL 1 THEN VAULTED ACROSS VESSEL 2 AND STRUCK VESSEL 3 STARBOARD FORWARD TOWARD IT'S EXTREME BOW.  PASSENGERS OF VESSEL 2 AND 3 WERE THROWN INTO FLOOR AREA AND OPERATOR OF VESSEL 2 WAS THROWN BACK INTO REAR OF VESSEL 3.  PASSENGERS STATED THAT VESSEL 1 TRAVELED APPROX 50 YDS AFTER IMPACT AND BEGAN TO CIRCLE BACK TO IMPACT SCENE.  PASSENGERS STAED THEY HEARD A FEMALE VOICE ASK IF EVERYONE WAS OK.  VESSEL 1 LEFT SCENE AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED.  VESSEL 1 REPORTED COLLISION TO AUTHORITIES THE FOLLOWING MORNING AT APPROX 0730 HRS.  ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT APPROX .5 MILE SW OF CHICKEN CREEK SOUTH BOAT RAMP AND APPROX 300 YDS W OF EAST SHORE OF TENKILLER LAKE AND APPROX .75 MILES SW OF CHICKEN CREEK ISLAND.
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