OPERATOR OF VESSEL #1 WAS ATTEMPTING TO DOCK HIS VESSEL NEXT TO VESSEL #2 AT THE BLIND RIVER BAR ON THE AMITE RIVER DIVERSION CANAL IN LIVINGSTON PARISH. Operator1 REPORTS THAT AS HE WAS BACKING UP TO THE DOCK HIS HAND SLIPPED ON THE THROTTLE CAUSING HIS VESSEL TO COLLIDE WITH THE DOCK AT A SPEED NOTABLE ENOUGH THAT THE FIBERGLASS ON THE STERN OF HIS VESSEL WAS CRACKED AND DAMAGED (SEE PHOTOS). HE THEN PLACED THE THROTTLE FORWARD AND ACCELERATED. AS HIS VESSEL MOVED FORWARD AND AWAY FROM THE DOCK THE STARBOARD / AFT SECTION OF HIS VESSEL, VESSEL #1, STRUCK VESSEL #2 AND A NOTABLE SCRATCH (APPROX 2') ON THE STARBOARD AFT SECTION OF VESSEL #1. THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL #1 MOVED AWAY FROM VESSEL #2 AND DOCKED NEARBY. HE LOCATED THE OWNER OF VESSEL #2, AND AUTHORITIES WERE CONTACTED. PFD'S WERE NOT IN USE. ALCOHOL IS NOT BELIEVED TO BE A FACTOR IN THE INCIDENT. NO INJURIES OR DEATHS WERE REPORTED RELATING TO THIS INCIDENT.
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