RedactedNarrative: On june 25, 2017, at about 6:30 p.m. wildlife officers responded to a report of a boat accident on lake gaston that occurred at about 6:23 p.m., which involved two jet skies.  We arrived on the scene at about 7:00 p.m.  At the scene, we found two subjects that were involved in the accident.  There also was a victim who was being treated in an ambulance that was about to leave the scene to be air lifted to vidant medical center due to a broken leg.  
  
  Operator2 was complaining of pain and discomfort in his right back around the rib cage area.  I asked Operator1 and Operator2 what had happened.  They said they were coming at each other in a head-on situation.  They came in close proximity to each other and both turned left to avoid a collision.  Both operators of the jet skies were unable to avoid a collision and hit each other.  The jet ski operated by Operator2 had V2 occupant on it as a passenger.  When the jet skies collided, V2 occupant suffered a compound fracture to her lower right leg. 
  
  When talking to Operator1, i noticed a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage on his breath.  His eyes appeared bloodshot, watery, and glassy with droopy eyelids.  He was asked to perform some sobriety tests.   Operator1 stated that he had not eaten that day and had consumed two 16 ounce coors light beers before the accident.  He stated that he drank one of those beers just before the accident, and that he drank the whole beer at once.  I preformed the required standarized field sobriety test on Operator1.  During these tests i noticed some signs of inpairment. At 7:20 p.m., Operator1 submitted to a preliminary breath test.  The result of that test was a .09 bac.   After five minutes, another test was given.   The result of that test was a .09 bac.  He was placed under arrest at 7:25 p.m. for operating while impaired.  He was taken to the initializer room located at the roanoke rapids police department.  After the required paperwork and observation time was completed, Operator1 submitted to a chemical analysis of his breath.  This test was given, and the result was a .07 bac.  We filled out a retrograde extrapolation of alcohol concentrations sheet, which showed at the time of the accident that Operator1 had a bac of .11.  He was then transported to the northampton county magistrate's office where probable cause was found that Operator1 was operating while impaired and operating a jet ski in a reckless and negligent manner. 
  
  All occupants involved were wearing their personal floatation devices.  I also determined through my investigation that Operator2 purchased the jet ski that he was operating in 2014.  Operator2 failed to register the jet ski in his name and it had an expired registration of may 2013.  Operator2 was charged with operating in a reckless and negligent manner and with having an expired registration.  Both operators of the jet skies were charged with reckless and negligent operation since both were traveling toward each other in a head-on situation.  Both jet skies were within close proximity to each other in violation of the one-hundred-foot rule, operating greater than wake speed on a personal water craft.  They also turned in the wrong direction in violation of the navigational rule when approaching in a head-on situation.
  
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