RedactedNarrative: ON MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2021 APPROXIMATELY 12:40AM, A BOATING INCIDENT OCCURRED ON LAKE TILLERY CLOSE TO THE MOUTH OF MOUNTAIN CREEK NEAR STANLY COUNTY.  VESSEL #1 IS A 2000 20 FOOT SMOKER CRAFT PONTTON THAT WAS OWNED AND OPERATED BY VESSEL #1 OPERATOR.  VESSEL #2 IS A 1973 26 FOOT SANPAN GODFREY PONTOON THAT WAS OWNED AND OPERATED BY VESSEL #2 OPERATOR.  VESSEL #2 WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON LAKE TILLERY.  VESSEL #1 WAS AT ANCHOR AND FACING SOUTH.  ACCORDING TO THE OCCUPANTS OF VESSEL #2, THEY SAW VESSEL #1 DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THEM DUE TO THE REFLECTION OF VESSEL #2'S NAVIGATIONAL LIGHTS.  THE OCCUPANTS FROM VESSEL #2 YELLED TO THEIR OPERATOR TO STOP.  THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL #2 THEN PULLED THE THROTTLE BACK TO REVERSE, BUT WAS UNABLE TO MANUEVER OR DECREASE HIS SPEED IN TIME TO AVOID A COLLISION WITH VESSEL #1.  VESSEL #2 CAME TO REST ON THE TOP PORTION OF THE MOTOR OF VESSEL #1.  
  
  THE OCCUPANTS OF VESSEL #2 HAD BEEN FISHING CLOSE TO THE FALLS DAM AND DECIDED TO CHANGE LOCATIONS FURTHER SOUTH ON LAKE TILLERY.  THE OCCUPANTS OF VESSEL #1 WERE AT ANCHOR AND BOTH INDIVIDUALS WERE LYING DOWN ON THE SEATS WHILE FISHING.  ACCORDING TO VESSEL #2 OCCUPANTS, THEY DID NOT SEE ANY LIGHTS FROM VESSEL #1, BEFORE, DURING, OR IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE COLLISION.  AFTER THE COLLISION, THE OCCUPANTS FROM BOTH VESSELS CHECKED ON EACH OTHER'S WELL BEING.  THE OCCUPANTS OF BOTH VESSEL'S THEN WORKED WITH EACH OTHER TO PUSH VESSEL #2 OFF OF VESSEL #1.
  
  ACCORDING TO THE OCCUPANTS OF VESSEL #2, A VERBAL ARGUMENT TOOK PLACE SHORTLY AFTER THE COLLISION.  THE OCCUPANTS OF VESSEL #2 WERE ARGUING WITH THE OWNER OF VESSEL #1 OVER HIM NOT DISPLAYING ANY LIGHTS.  ACCORDING TO THE OWNER OF VESSEL #1, HE POINTED TO HIS ANCHOR LIGHT THAT WAS ON AND ATTACHED TO THE TOP OF HIS VESSEL.   ACCORDING TO THE OCCUPANTS OF VESSEL #2, THE LIGHT HAD NOT BEEN ON.  THE LIGHT THAT VESSEL #1 OWNER WAS POIINTING TO WAS VERY DIM.  VESSEL #2 TOWED VESSEL #1 BACK TO THE SWIFT ISLAND BOAT ACCESS AREA.
  
  IT DOES NOT APPEAR THAT ALCOHOL OR DRUGS WERE A FACTOR IN THIS INCIDENT.  ALL PARTIES REFUSED MEDICAL TRATMENT AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT.  ACCORDING TO THE OWNER OF VESSEL #1, HE SEEKED MEDICAL TREATMENT LATER THAT DAY IN WHICH HE WAS TREATED AND RELEASED WITH BRUISING OF THE SPLEEN AND RIBS.  ACCORDING TO THE CONFLICTING STATEMENTS FROM THE INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED AND NO KNOWN 3RD PARTY WITNESSES, NO FAULT OR CAUSE IS ABLE TO BE DETERMINED WITH THIS BOATING INCIDENT.  NO CRIMINAL CHARGES WERE FILED IN THIS MATTER. 
  