BOAT ACCIDENT TOOK PLACE ON 06/27/2009 AROUND 12:30 PM.  IT WAS A CLEAR DAY WITH A LIGHT WIND FROM THE EAST.  THERE WAS LITTLE TO NO BOAT TRAFFIC IN THE AREA AROUND BANKS CHANNEL BRIDGE.  OPERATOR OF VESSEL 1 HAD JUST DROPPED HIS PARENTS OFF ON LEE'S ISLAND.  PARENTS GAVE HIM PERMISSION TO USE THE BOAT UNTIL  2PM THAT DAY.  operator WAS SUPPOSED TO RETURN TO LEE'S ISLAND AT 2PM TO PICK UP HIS PARENTS.  AFTER OPERATOR LEFT HIS PARENTS ON LEE'S ISLAND HE STATED TO OPERATED NC-8800-DK GOING TOWARDS BANKS CHANNEL TO PICK UP SOME FRIENDS.  WHILE OPERATOR WAS GOING THROUGH BANKS CHANNEL HE CAME UP TO THE BRIDGE AT BANKS CHANNEL.  OPERATOR NEVER DID SLOW DOWN.  HE WAS CUISING AROUND 20 MPH.  VESSEL 1 RAN INTO BANKS CHANNEL BRIDGE.  MARINE FISHERIES AND COAST GUARD WAS ON THE SITE WHEN I ARRIVED.  OPERATOR HAD SOME MINOR CUTS ON HIS LEG BUT HE REFUSED ANY MEDICAL TREATMENT.
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