RedactedNarrative: 	On Monday, June 25, 2018, I responded to a report of a boating incident on Twin Lakes in Lowndes County (private property) involving a boat collision with a dock. The Lowndes County 911 dispatchers advised that the operator of the boat had been transported to South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta and that one of the occupants, a young child, was being life flighted to Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida.
  
  	When I arrived on scene, I spoke with Lowndes County Sheriff’s Deputies that advised me of the details they had about the boat and the occupants, as well as the witnesses they had identified.  The deputies advised that the boat operator and two occupants had left the 4-H club, which was on the opposite side of the lake and went for a ride.  At some point, they struck a fixed dock with the boat and came to a stop against the bank behind the neighboring residence.  
  
  The deputies advised that the two juvenile occupants were currently enrolled in Camp Rock, which was taking place at the 4-H club.  After speaking with the deputies, I interviewed the first witness.  Witness1 stated that she did not see the collision but heard the impact while she was outside in her yard.  Witness1 stated that when she heard the impact, she immediately knew that a boat had hit a dock and that she and her friend ran across the street and behind the residence where the boat had come to rest, in order to offer assistance to the occupants of the boat.  
  
  Upon speaking to witness2 a short time later, she provided the same information.  Witness1 stated that when they made it to the boat, it was stopped against the bank and the male operator was trying to move the pieces of wood from on top of the other two occupants in the boat.  Witness1 stated that the operator appeared to have injuries to his side and that one of the occupants had injuries to his head.  Witness1 also stated that Operator made statements about looking back at something in the water and then hitting the dock.  She also advised that later, Operator stated that the steering in his boat broke and he could not steer away from the dock. 
   	
  	After speaking with Witness1, I went to the 4-H Club to find out the identities of the two juvenile occupants involved in the crash.  They advised that subject1 had been taken to Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida and that subject2 had gone back to class with the other students.  I requested that the camp staff contact subject2’s parents and ask them to come to the camp so that I could interview their son about the incident.  A short time later, the parents arrived back at the camp.  With their permission and in their presence, I interviewed subject2 about the incident.  Subject2 stated that they were riding around the lake and the steering on the boat malfunctioned which caused them to run into the dock.
  
  	After speaking with Subject2, I went to South Georgia Medical Center to interview the boat operator.  Operator stated that he was the operator and that while they were riding in the boat, he looked away for just a second and when he looked back forward, he saw the dock.  Operator advised that his steering locked and he was unable to steer out of the path of the dock.  However, Operator also stated that after the collision, his steering “freed up” and he was able to steer the boat toward the bank.
  
  	Incident was due to operator inattention.