RedactedNarrative: On 07/21/2017 at around 2145 Operator1 was in a bass tournament and was driving his bass boat (Vessel 1) from Gourdneck Hollow towards Turkey Creek.  As he was in the main channel of Hurricane Creek headed towards Turkey Creek Boat Ramp he noticed a boat right in front of him with no lights on and cut his boat sharply to his right side to try to miss the other boat.  
  
  Operator1''s boat hit the very front of the other boat and scraped/chipped the underside of his boat as it rode over the nose of the other boat.  The other boat (Vessel 2) was owned/operated by Operator2 who was sitting in the boat with V2 occupant while the boat was anchored.  
  
  Operator2 and V2 occupant both claimed that the red/green navigation lights were on but that the 360 degree white anchor light was not on.  Operator2 admitted that anchor light was not on at the time of the accident, he was only turning the light on when he noticed a boat coming and didn''t get it turned on in time when he saw Operator1''s boat.  Operator1 said that he did not see any lights on the other vessel before he hit it.  
  
  After the collision Operator1 came back over to Operator2''s boat and checked to make sure that everyone was ok.  After they started talking they realized that they knew each other and that everyone was ok they decided to head back to shore in case there was enough damage take on water.  Another boat that was nearby at the time of the accident went back to the ramp with Operator1 because his lights had stopped working after the collision.  Operator1 called my phone and left a message that night and when I didn''t answer he called the Franklin County Sheriff''s Office to do a report.  He then got in touch with me the next day.  After having his boat checked out Operator1 let me know that the quote to fix his boat''s fiberglass damage was $2700 and he had lost a spot light that was mounted on the bow of his boat.  Operator2''s boat had some minor chipping and scrapes on the very end of the bow and lost his red/green navigation light in the collision. 
  
  There were also two other witnesses that were fishing in the same tournament as Operator1 who saw the accident.  The Witnesses stated that when they saw Operator2''s boat in the area when they first arrived and its lights were on.  Shortly after they passed the boat and started fishing they noticed that they couldn’t see the lights of the boat anymore but they could hear the people on the boat talking but could barely see the boat even though they were only about 50 yards away. The Witnesses stated that a pontoon boat came out of a nearby cove and headed into the main channel and came close to hitting the anchored boat but went around and the lights were not turned on until after the other boat passed him and then turned off again.  The witnesses stated that they witnessed the collision and that they could not see any lights on Operator2''s boat at the time of the accident until after Operator1 had already hit it and then the lights came on Operator2''s boat.
  
  During my investigation I found that Operator1''s boat was not registered in his name and the registration from the former owner was expired.  I took out a summons warrant for Operator1 for the Violation of Vessel Registration Law.  I also took out a summons warrant for Operator2 for the Violation of Navigation Light Law.
  