RedactedNarrative: Vessel was on full plane when the engine hit a submerged log. It broke the steering arm on the engine and the vessel hit a tree on the left front.
  
  On 7-11-2019, Officers of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conversation Commission (FWC), received a call from our dispatch about a boating accident that happened on 6-22-2019. 
  
  Officer made contact with the complainant, so we could meet with him to get a written report from him of the accident. 
  
  Complainant told us that on 6-22-2019, he was riding in the back seat of a vessel that was operated by a friend. He said that they were in smokehouse slue with the vessel  at full throttle when the engine hit a submerged log. The engine came up and hit him in the shoulder. He said that the vessel then went head on into a tree. He was taken to the hospital in Geneva Alabama so that they would not have to report the boating accident to FWC. They told the hospital that it was an ATV accident.
  
  OP of V1 said that he and complainant were in the vessel on smokehouse slue when he hit a submerged log the he could not see and that when he hit the log it broke the steering arm on the engine and that he had no control of the vessel and that it hit a tree on the left front of the vessel. The complainant (occupant) told him that he could not go to the hospital in Florida because he had a warrant for his arrest and that is why they took him to the hospital in Alabama.; 
  
  Subject said that the engine cowling hit his right shoulder and middle back.