ON 5/8/09 AT APPROXIMATELY 8:00PM, VESSEL 1 WAS RETURNING TO THE WELDON ACCESS AREA AFTER COMPLETING A DAY OF FISHING ON THE ROANOKE RIVER.  VESSEL 2 OPERATED BY FISHING GUIDE WITH 2 PASSENGERS WERE IDLING UPSTREAM AND JUST BEGAN CASTING TOWARD THE WATER'S EDGE APPROXIMATELY 30 FEET FROM THE BANK OF THE RIVER BETWEEN THE LITTLE RIVER AND THE WELDON BOAT ACCESS.  OCCUPANTS OF VESSEL 2 THEN NOTICED A BOAT, VESSEL 1, TRAVELING DIRECTLY TOWARD THE STERN OF THEIR BOAT AT ABOUT 20 MPH.  VESSEL 2 OCCUPANTS NOTICED THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 1 LAID BACK WHILE OPERATING A TILLER DRIVEN OUTBOARD ENGINE.  VESSEL 2 OCCUPANTS THEN BEGAN YELLING AT THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 1 IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET HIS ATTENTION BEFORE THE COLLISION OCCURRED.  THE OCCUPANTS OF VESSEL 2 REALIZING COLLISION WITH VESSEL 1 WAS INEVITABLE BEGAN TO JUMP OVERBOARD ON THE STARBOARD SIDE.  OCCUPANTS WERE ABLE TO JUMP OVERBOARD PRIOR TO COLLISION LEAVING OPERATOR2 REMAINING ON THE BOAT NEAR THE CENTER CONSOLE OF VESSEL 2 WHEN THE COLLISION OCCURRED.  OPERATOR2 WAS KNOCKED INTO THE HAND RAIL LOCATED ON THE SIDE OF THE CENTER CONSOLE CAUSING PAIN AND BRUISING TO HIS UPPER RIGHT ARM.  NO OCCUPANTS OF VESSEL 2 WERE WEARING PFDS.  VESSEL 2 COLLIDED INTO THE ENGINE COWLING OF VESSEL 2 WITH THE PORT SIDE BOW AFTER AN UNSUCCESSFUL LAST SECOND ATTEMPT TO AVOID COLLISION BY STEERING THE BOAT TO THE RIGHT, ATTEMPTING TO GO TO THE STARBOARD SIDE OF THE OTHER VESSEL.  BOTH OCCUPANTS OF VESSEL 1 WERE WEARING PFDS.  AFTER THE COLLISION, VESSEL 1 OCCUPANTS ASKED IF THE OCCUPANTS WERE SAFE AND IF THEY NEEDED ANY HELP.  VESSEL2 OCCUPANTS WERE ABLE TO SFELY SWIM BACK TO THEIR BOAT AND DECLINED ANY HELP.  OPERATOR1 COMPLAINED OF LOWER NECK PAIN, HOWEVER DECLINED MEDICAL ATTENTION AS DID OPERATOR2.  BOTH VESSEL THEN SAFELY RETURNED TO THE WELDON BOAT ACDESS AREA.  DAMAGES RECEIVED TO VESSEL 2 ARE AS FOLLOWS:  BROKEN ENGINE COWLING, THROTTLE ARM, STEERING CONTROL, MOTOR CANTED, AND BROKEN STERN LIGHT.  VESSEL 1 DAMAGES INCLUDE:  BENT/DENTED PORT SIDE BOW AND GUNWALE SEAM SEPARATED.  PERSONAL PROPERTY DAMAGES/LOST EQUIPMENT INCLUDE:  2 ORVIS FLY RODS, 1 REDDINGTON REEL AND 1 ABEL SUPER 8 REEL BELONGING TO VESSEL 2.
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