BASED ON INFORMATION TO DATE:    ON Sunday, June 7, 2009, at approximately 15:45 hrs, P1 was operating a red Tahoe runabout, Vessel #1, in the area known as Ski Hollow in the Macedonia area of Cherokee Lake.  P1 was traveling east in a fairly narrow channel.  Also on board the vessel was wife, and their eight-week-old son.  P2 was operating Vessel #2, a Kawasaki Personal Watercraft (PWC).  His son was a passenger.  P2 stated that he was following Vessel #1 in an attempt to clear the narrow channel.  P2 stated that he was 85 to 100 feet behind vessel #1.  P1 states that he met a Mastercraft ski boat in the narrow channel.  P1 states that he slowed his vessel in order to smoothly cross the wake of the Mastercraft.  At this point, Vessel #2 struck Vessel #1 on the ski platform and ramped up onto the rear and into the passenger compartment of Vessel #1.  P2 caught the fifth toe of his right foot on an object on Vessel #1, most likely the ski ladder of Vessel #1, causing a deep cut or puncture wound between his 4th and 5th toes.  His son hit the canopy support structure of Vessel #1.  The bow of Vessel #2 struck P1 in the back of the head, knocking him forward into the ski mirror on Vesssel #1, breaking it.  Vessel #2 came to rest partially supported by the front passenger seats and the back of the rear seat of Vessel #1.  P2 was able to push Vessel #2 off of Vessel #1.  P1 and P2 exchanged information and seperated.  P1 then drove Vessel #1 to Hamblen Boat Dock to report the incident, and P2 took Vessel #2 to his father-in-law's residence.
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