ACCORDING TO STATEMENTS MADE BY THE OPERATOR/PASSENGERS OF VESSEL 2, AS WELL AS OTHER WITNESSES TO THE ACCIDENT, VESSEL 2 OPERATED BY OPERATOR2, HAD JUST ARRIVED AT A POPULAR SWIMMING LOCATION AND DROPPED ANCHOR.  OPERATOR1 WAS OPERATING VESSEL 1 AND HAD FOLLOWED VESSEL 2 TO IT'S CURRENT LOCATION.  ONCE VESSEL 2 WAS ANCHORED, OPERATOR1 OPERATED VESSEL 1 TO WITHIN ABOUT 20 YARDS OF VESSEL 2 AND WAS GETTING INSTRUCTIONS ON THE LOCATION OF THE ANCHOR FROM THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 2.  OPERATOR1 THEN REPORTEDLY STOOD UP AND LEANED OVER THE HANDLEBARS OF VESSEL 1, APPARENTLY TO RETRIEVE THE ANCHOR FROM THE FRONT HATCH.  THE PASSENGER ON VESSEL 1, THEN REPORTEDLY LEANED FORWARD AND GRABBED THE HANDLEBARS OF VESSEL 1, POSSIBLY IN AN EFFORT TO STABLILIZE THE VESSEL.  IN DOING SO, subject APPARENTLY GRABBED AND PULLED THE THROTTLE HANDLE LOCATED ON THE STARBOARD SIDE HAND GRIP, CAUSING VESSEL 1 TO RAPIDLY ACCELERATE AND COLLIDE WITH THE PORT SIDE HULL OF VESSEL 2.  BOTH OCCUPANTS OF VESSEL 1 WERE THROWN FROM THE VESSEL.  THE OPERATOR AND PASSENGERS OF VESSEL 2 RETRIEVED THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 1, WHILE THE PASSENGER FROM VESSEL 1 WAS RETRIEVED BY ANOTHER NEARBY VESSEL.  THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 1 WAS TRANSPORTED BY AMBULANCE TO SENTARA NORFOLK GENERAL HOSPITAL WHERE SHE WAS TREATED AND RELEASED FOR A FACIAL LACERATION.  THE PASSENGER OF VESSEL 1 WAS TRANSPORTED BY A SEPAPRATE AMBULANCE TO CHESAPEAKE GENERAL HOSPITAL WHERE SHE WAS TREATED AND RELEASED FOR A FRACTURED CLAVICLE.  BOTH OCCUPANTS OF VESSEL 1 WERE REPORTEDLY WEARING PFDS AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.  ALCOHOL AND/OR DRUGS IS NOT BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR TO THE ACCIDENT.  THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT IS BELIEVED TO BE THE OPERATOR'S INEXPERIENCE WITH OPERATING THIS OR SIMILAR PWCS.  NO CHARGES WERE FILED AS A RESULT OF THE ACCIDENT.
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