ON 05 SEPTEMBER 2009, AT APPROXIMATELY 4:30PM subject 1 STATED HE LEFT THE NORTH END OF CAROLINA BEACH AND BEGAN TO HEAD TOWARDS THE SNOW'S CUT WILDLIFE RAMP.  HE MANUEVERED AROUND A COUPLE OF BOATS THAT WERE ANCHORED IN THE INLET.  AS HE APPROACHED VESSEL #2, A WAVE STRUCK THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS BOAT CAUSING HIM TO BE REDIRECTED TOWARDS VESSEL #2.   subject 1 PANICKED AND PUT HIS BOAT IN NEUTRAL BUT WAS UNABLE TO KEEP FROM STRIKING VESSEL #2.  AFTER STRIKING VESSEL #2, subject 1 THOUGHT HIS BOAT WAS TAKING ON WATER, SO HE CONTINUED ON TOWARDS THE BOAT RAMP AND DID NOT STOP TO CHECK ON THE PASSENGERS ON VESSEL #2.   subject 1 WAS TRAVELING APPROXIMATELY 25 MPH WHEN HE STRUCK VESSEL #2.  subject 2, THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL #2, STATED THAT HE OBSERVED VESSEL #1 TRAVELING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED. HE STATED THAT VESSEL #1 HIT MULTIPLE WAVES AS IT APPROACHED THEM.  VESSEL #1 LOST CONTROL AND STRUCK THE SIDE OF subject 2'S BOAT.   subject 2 STATED VESSEL #1 SPED AWAY AFTER STRIKING HIS BOAT.

INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT THE LEFT SIDE OF VESSEL #1 STRUCK THE LEFT SIDE OF VESSEL #2.  AS A RESULT OF THE IMPACT, VESSEL #1 SUSTAINED MINOR FIBERGLASS DAMAGE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE HULL.  VESSEL #2 SUSTAINED MAJOR FIBERGLASS DAMAGE ALONG THE LEFT SIDE.

VESSEL #1 SUSTAINED APPROXIMATELY $300.00 IN DAMAGE.

VESSEL #2 SUSTAINED APPROXIMATELY $9500.00 IN DAMAGE.

WHEN OFFI QUESTIO subject 1 AS TO WHY HE DID NOT STOP TO CHECK ON THE PASSENGERS OF VESSEL #2,  subject 1 STATED SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF "I PANICKED; I WANTED TO GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE AND I DIDN'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THE GRIEF." subject 1 WAS CHARGE WITH RECKLESS AND NEGLIGENT OPERATION.
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