VESSEL 1 WAS A 20'3" GENMAR CHAMPION OPEN MOTORBOAT WITH 3 PEOPLE ON BOARD.  VESSEL 2 WAS A 18'5" BAYLINER OPEN MOTORBOAT WITH 2 PEOPLE ON BOARD.  OPERATOR 2 STATED THAT HE WAS DRIVING VESSEL 2 TOWARDS THE HOOVER DAM AT A SLOW RATE OF SPEED WHEN HE OBSERVED VESSEL 1 STRIKE THE STARBOARD SIDE OF VESSEL 2 AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED.  OPERATOR 2 STATED THAT PASSENGER 1 WAS IN THE FRONT OF THE VESSEL ON THE PORT SIDE WHEN THEY WERE STRUCK.  PASSENGER 1 WAS KNOCKED DOWN BY THE COLLISION AND LOST CONSCIOUSNESS FOR APPROXIMATELY 1 MINUTE.  PASSENGER 1 WAS TREATED TO LACERATION TO THE RIGHT KNEE AND TRANSPORTED BY AMBULANCE.  

OPERATOR 2 AND WITNESSES WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE OPERATOR AND THE VESSEL.  RANGERS LATER OBSERVED THE SUSPECTS BOAT ARRIVE AT THE COURTESY DOCK, RANGERS STATE THAT THEY OBSERVED DAMAGE TO VESSEL 1 ON THE PORT SIDE CONSISTENT WITH THE ACCIDENT.  RANGERS SPOKE WITH THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 1 AND OPERATOR 1 ADMITTED TO DRIVING THE VESSEL, CAUSING THE ACCIDENT AND LEAVING THE SCENE AFTER THE ACCIDENT.  RANGERS ADVISED THAT OPERATOR 1 HAD BLOOD SHOT WATERY EYES AND THE ODOR OF ALCOHOL ON HIS PERSON.  RANGERS PLACED OPERATOR 1 IN CUSTODY AND TRANSPORTED HIM BACK TO THE RANGER STATION.  OPERATOR 1 WAS ARRESTED FOR RECKLESS OPERATION, FAILURE TO REPORT INJURY ACCIDENT AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL, ENDANGERS.  NO OTHER INJURIES WERE REPORTED.  ESITMATE DAMAGE TO VESSEL 1 $5,000.00 WAS SCRATCHED AND THE FIBERGLASS WAS DAMAGED ON ITS PORT SIDE APPROXIMATELY FOUR FEET. ESTIMATE DAMAGE TO VESSEL 2 $5,000.00 WAS SCRATCHED AND THE FIBERGLASS WAS DAMAGED ON ITS STARBOARD SIDE.
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