RedactedNarrative: Vessel 1, Vessel 2 and a pontoon with other people on it were all boating together on the day of the accident.  The group was traveling upstream on the Mississippi River.  Vessel 1 Operator was the last person in line as the group traveled up the river.  Vessel 1 Operator stated she was riding her PWC in the middle of the river, and was not going very fast and estimated her speed to be approximately 20 mph, approximately 50-75 yards away from the pontoon.  Vessel 1 Operator stated the pontoon was off to her right and Vessel 2 Operator was by the pontoon but she didn’t know specifically where he was, just that he was in the vicinity of the pontoon.  Vessel 1 Operator stated she was looking where she was going and wasn’t sure where Vessel 2 came from before the accident happened.
  
  Vessel 2 stated he was traveling on the pontoon’s port side, he was a little bit ahead of their wake but parallel to them, and was approximately 25’ away from the pontoon.  Vessel 2 Operator did not know where Vessel 1 was in relationship to the pontoon.  Vessel 2 Operator stated both he and the pontoon were on plane.
  
  Vessel 2 Operator stated he moved towards the pontoon to approximately 15’ from them on their port side and swiveled around left, so he could spray the pontoon.  Vessel 2 Operator stated he didn’t look back to see where Vessel 1 was because he had been trailing the group most of the day.  Vessel 2 Operator stated when he came out of his turn from trying to spray the pontoon he saw Vessel 1, over-reacted and spun his PWC back to the right, and Vessel 1 hit him on the right side of his PWC. 
  
   Vessel 2 Operator was facing towards the pontoon at the time of the accident.  Vessel 2 Operator stated he was going approximately 10-15 mph at the time of the accident.
  Vessel 1 Operator stated the accident occurred when Vessel 2 “whipped” around in front of her and she couldn’t stop. 
  
   Vessel 1 Operator mentioned that she did not know if Vessel 2 Operator knew she was still behind him at that time and didn’t know if he saw her when he went out in front of her.  
  
  Vessel 1 Operator stated that she immediately let go of the throttle when the accident happened.   Vessel 1 Operator also stated that she had not been using the throttle when the accident happened.   Vessel 1 Operator stated that Vessel 2 crossed her path before her PWC was able to stop and that was when the accident occurred.  Vessel 1 Operator stated when she was trying to turn away, to avoid hitting Vessel 2, without the throttle engaged, the PWC didn’t turn the way she wanted it to.  Both Vessel 1 and Vessel 2 Operators confirmed that Vessel 1 went up and over Vessel 2.
  