Dare county ems responded to a boating accident in hatteras nc that occurred on tuesday, may 11th around 1:00am.  Officer interviewed the operators and passengers of everyone involved in the accident.  Operator1 stated he and several others had been hanging out north of the accident sight earlier that night.  Operator1 was behind the console, subject1 was to his left, subject2 was behind subject1 and subject3 was sitting on the bow of vessel 1 at the time of the accident.  Vessel 1 was following another vessel through a no wake zone in hatteras village when vessel 1 tried to overtake the vessel on the port side.  Just after going around the vessel, subject1 and subject2 struck a docked vessel's anchor pulpit and fell to the back of the vessel.  Subject3 works for dare county ems and started to help subject1 and subject2.  Subject3 made the decision to call 911.  Subject1 received ten staples to his head and several stitches to his right index finger.  Subject2 received a broken nose, fractured eye socket, stitches to her nose and 2 staples to her head.  White talked to the owner of the docked vessal and he stated his vessel did not receive any damage.  During the officer's interviews, he found that subject1 and subject2 had consumed alconol earlier, operator1 stated he had one beer several hours before the accident.  Officer went to see what exactly caused the injuries to subject1 and subject2 and it was not clear if they hit the pulpit or the anchor itself.  Vessel 1 damages were a broken fiberglass antenna and a broken plastic windshield.  Officer did not receive the call until 11:30am that morning and was unable to perform field sobriety tests.  During the interviews officer did determine that vessel 1 and the vessel that he was overtaking were not using the proper navigation lights, and each vessel did not have a proper lookout.  White interviewed several of the passengers on each vessel and they all stated that they were not traveling over the no wake speed.  operator1 stated the reason he tried to overtake the vessen in front of him was because the vessel was almost completely stopped in the narrow channel.  The operators of vessel 1 and the overtook vessl were charged with failure to use proper navigation lights.  After interviewing passengers, the operator of vessel 1 was not charged with careless and negligent operation because each person stated that vessel 1 was not going greater than no wake speed.  The vessel that was struck had been docked in the channel behind the owner's residence for two years.  The owner was also charged because his vessel was not in a marked navigation channel.  The owner of the docked vessel did state to officer that his vessel did not receive any damage.
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