ON FEBRUARY 21, 2009, AT APPROXIMATELY 0640 HOURS, OPERATOR1 LAUNCHED VESSEL 1 AT THE HYCO LAKE BOAT RAMP OFF OF KELLY BREWER RD.  
  AFTER REMOVING HIS BOAT OFF HIS TRAILER, OPERATOR1 ATTEMPTED TO DOCK HIS BOAT IN ORDER TO TIE IT UP.   OPERATOR1 REPORTED HIS THROTTLE WAS NOT OPERATING PROPERLY AND WHEN HE INITIALLY ATTEMPTED TO PUT IT IN FORWARD GEAR, IT DID NOT RESPOND.  WHEN OPERATOR1 PUSHED THE THROTTLE EVEN HARDER, HE REPORTED IT BECAME STUCK IN FORWARD GEAR.  VESSEL 1 THEN ACCELLERATED SPEED AND COLLIEDE WITH VESSEL 2 AND VESSEL 3, BY GOING IN BETWEEN THEM.  VESSELS 2 AND 3 WERE UNOCCUPIED AT THE TIME OF THE COLLISION AND WERE NOT UNDERWAY.  THEY WERE TIED UP PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER AND PERPENDICULAR TO THE DOCK THEY WERE TIED UP TO.  IT WAS THE PORT SIDE OF THE BOW OF VESSEL 1 THAT MADE CONTACT WITH VESSEL 2 AND THE STARBOARD SIDE OF THE BOW OF VESSEL 1 THAT MADE CONTACT WITH VESSEL 3.  VESSEL 2 WAS HIT IN THE UPPER COWLING PORTION OF THE STARBOARD SIDE OF THE MOTOR RESULTING IN TWO LARGE HOLES IN THE COWLING.  THE FOOT PEDAL FOR THE TROLLING MOTOR OF VESSEL 2 WAS ALSO DAMAGED AS A RESULT OF THE COLLISION.  VESSEL 3 SUSTAINED DAMAGES ON ITS PORT SIDE.  THE GAS LID WAS BROKEN AND THE FIBERGLASS WAS CRACKED AROUND THE GAS LID OF VESSEL 3.
  AFTER THE COLLISION WITH BOTH VESSELS, OPERATOR1 IMMEDIATELY PUT VESSEL 1 IN REVERSE GEAR.  BECAUSE THE WHEEL WAS TURNED SLIGHTLY TO THE RIGHT, VESSEL 1 COLLIDED WITH THE DOCK BEHIND IT AFTER GOING IN REVERSE.  IT WAS AT THIS TIME OPERATOR1 PULLED THE KILL SWITCH ON HIS VESSEL, SUCCESSFULLY SHUTTING OFF HS MOTOR.  THE PROPELLER OF VESSEL 1 SUSTAINED DAMAGES DURING THIS INCIDENT.  OPERATOR1 BELIEVES THE DAMAGE WAS CAUSED EITHER FROM HITTING THE DOCK WITH HIS PROP OR COMING IN CONTACT WITH THE CONCRETE OF THE BOTTOM OF THE BOAT RAMP.  VESSEL 1 WAS REPORTED TO ALSO HAVE SCUFF MARKS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BOW AND A BENT TROLLING MOTOR SHAFT AS A RESULT OF THE INITIAL COLLISION WITH VESSELS 2 AND 3.  
  THIS BOAT ACCIDENT WAS IMMEDIATELY REPORTED TO THE PERSON-CASWELL LAKE AUTHORITY AND OFFICER TOOK A WRITTEN STATEMENT FROM OPERATOR1 AND GOT CONTACT INFORMATION FROM THE OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED.  IT WAS NOT UNTIL MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2009, THAT i, OFFICER, BECAME AWARE OF THIS ACCIDENT.  IT WAS REPORTED TO ME BY WILDLIFE OFFICER OF CASWELL COUNTY.  NO FURTHER INFORMATION AT THIS TIME.  NO CHARGES WERE FILED.
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