RedactedNarrative: THE OPERATOR HAD BEEN OPERATING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED COMING INTO THE CEDAR RIVER FROM LAKE MICHIGAN. 
  
  THE VESSEL HIT THE SOUTH SIDE BREAKWALL. THE OPERATOR STATED HE HAS OPERATED A BOAT IN 5 YRS AND JUST PURCHASED THIS VESSEL IN JULY. 
  
  HE STATED HE BECAME DISORIENTED ON WHERE HE WAS IN THE CHANNEL COMING IN AT DARK. BY THE TIME HE REALIZED HE WAS ALREADY IN THE CHANNEL AND WAS COMING DOWN FROM FULL THROTTLE HE HIT THE BREAKWALL.
  
  THe occupant injured her teeth upon imapct.