RedactedNarrative: On July 24, 2021, at approximately 2239 hours, I was contacted by Kent Com in reference to a boat accident with personal injuries. 
  
  I was advised that the accident involved a center console motorboat and a sailboat and that it occurred in the C and D Canal, east of the Summit Bridge. I was further advised that EMS was making contact at the motorboat with the patients onboard and that the sailboat continued in the Canal, towards the State of Maryland. 
  
  I requested that Kent Com to dispatched another officer to assist me; Officer was contacted and requested to respond to Summit North Marina, where a fireboat would be escorting the center console motorboat back to. I responding to the Christina Emergency Room, where the patients were being transported to. 
  
  While enroute to CER, I contacted Maryland Natural Resources Police Officer and advised him of the situation; that the sailboat was continuing into the State of Maryland. I also provided him with the description that I was given from Kent Com. A larger white sailboat with no navigation lights, two white males on board, one possibly wearing a yellow shirt. 
  
  MDNRP Officer advised that he was on boat patrol and he would check the area of the C and D Canal and attempt to locate a sailboat. Upon my arrival to CER, I obtained verbal statements.  All three subjects explained that Operator1 was driving home and that everyone on the boat was looking out. That out of no where, Subject1 screamed "yo, yo, yo," and then Operator1 tried to turn left but it was too late, Operator1 hit the sailboat. All three subjects also claimed that the sailboat did not have their lights on and that after the incident, they turned them on and continued traveling towards Maryland.
  
  Officer obtained verbal statements from Operator1 (operator of Mako) and two others. All three subjects had near identical statements as the other three. MD NRP obtained written statements from the sailboat owner and also the sailboat operator.
  
  To summarize, they were underpower, traveling at 3 knots and out of no where, the Mako motorboat struck their sailboat starboard bow. On August 11, 2021, I obtained video footage of the accident from a camera on the Summit Bridge from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The footage shows the Mako motorboat cruising, on plane, and the sailboat traveling at a slow speed. Both vessels are underway on 'their right side' and both vessels navigation lights are illuminated. The Mako motorboat then turns left in the canal and strikes the sailboat with his starboard bow.
  
  After further investigation, Operator1, the operator of the Mako motorboat, stated that he had turned his electronics brill down extremely low and turned the interior docking lights on. He claimed that it was difficult to see due to those factors in addition to low light, night-time. Operator1 was traveling at an unsafe speed which prohibited him from being able to make any adjustments in order to avoid collision. This was  careless way to operate a vessel, given the circumstances. 
  
  Vessel information:
  Mako 121 center console motorboat, 150 horsepower NJ registration NJ4724GZ. Owner and operator: Operator1 - boating safety certified certificate
  Freedom, Freedom 35, 35 foot sailboat 30 horsepower. Documentation number 686041. 
  