RedactedNarrative: On July 7, 2018 at approximately 15:30 hours, an incident occurred on Lake Sinclair in the Island Creek area.  DNR was notified by Hancock County Sheriff’s Office at 17:17 hours. I (Game Warden) arrived to the victim’s location at approximately 17:40 hours.  Once on-scene, I received a statement from the operator of the vessel (V01) that was struck.  I then had to patrol the waters in the area to locate the Personal Watercraft (PWC) that was involved in the incident because the operator failed to call me back with his current location.  I then located the PWC (V02) and operator.
  
  	Using the statement from Operator1 and Operator2 as well as my knowledge and experience the following occurred:  Operator1 was traveling north in Island Creek in his vessel, pulling his son and daughter in a tube.  Operator2 was traveling east across the lake toward Operator1.  When Operator1 saw they were about to collide with each other, he throttled down and made a sharp turn to the left.  At this point, Operator2 was still headed towards Operator1’ vessel.  When Operator2 saw the vessel in front of him, he let off of the throttle on the PWC, but still made contact with Operator1’ vessel.  The Yamaha PWC operated by Operator2 made contact with the front starboard side of the Stratos boat operated by Operator1.
   
  	According to the boating rules of the road law, Operator1 was the stand on vessel and should have been able to continue the direction he was travelling. While Operator2 was the give way vessel and should have changed direction or stopped and allowed Operator1 to proceed.  Operator2 is at fault in the incident, as well while giving his statement to me Operator2 admitted that it was his fault.  He also told me that he had told Operator1 after the incident that he would pay for the damages to his vessel.
  