RedactedNarrative: On 09/02/19 at approximately 9:20 A.M.. I CPO was informed of a single boat accident involving three passengers at Lake Lou Yaeger in Litchfield. I arrived on scene to find the three passengers that were on the boat in an ambulance getting ready to be transported to St. Francis Hospital in Litchfield. I advised Litchfield Police to identify everyone involved while I rode out to the accident scene with the local lake patrol. I arrived at the accident scene and discovered that the boat involved was flipped over in the water and being towed to Marina #1 by a passer-by. I instructed the passer-by to tow the vehicle to the marina. I returned to the Marina and instructed the fire dept. to flip the boat over and place on the trailer to pull out of the water so I could inspect it while I ran to the hospital to interview the operator.
  
  I arrived at the hospital and spoke with the operator of the motorboat. Operator1 advised me that he was traveling at approximately 35-40 MPH down the lake. The water was very smooth with no wind and minimal boat traffic. Operator1 then observed at the last possible moment a wake from another boat traveling at him from the port side.  He was unable to turn into the wake in time causing the boat to catch the wake at a bad angle on its port side causing the boat to flip over on its port side. Operator1 and his two passengers were thrown out of the boat. As Subject1 was thrown out of the boat as it flipped over she was struck by the cowling of the outboard motor. She was complaining of back pain and had received x-rays and a cat scan. 
  
  I returned to the Marina to do an inspection on the boat. The owner of the vessel was with the boat on its trailer. I observed that the boat had expired registration, that it was equipped with a lanyard cut-off switch but that the clip was broken and unable to be attached to a person. I observed that the transom was almost detached from the hull of the boat. Owner advised me that the transom was not like that before the accident. I advised Owner that the boat appeared to be totaled based on damage and manufactured year of it.  I advised him that I was done inspecting the boat and he was free to take it home. I was advised by Officer of Litchfield Police that an individual had witnessed the accident. He informed me that he saw the motorboat traveling at a high rate of speed down the lake. That it hit a wake of a boat at a bad angle and flipped over on its port side. That he saw the occupants thrown out of the boat. He then went to the accident scene and was able to get them out of the water.
  
  I arrived back at the hospital to further speak with Operator1 about the accident. I asked Operator1 if he was wearing the lanyard cut-off. Operator1 advised me that he was not. I informed Operator1 that he was going to receive a citation for carless operation of a motorboat and warnings for no valid registration and for failure to wear the lanyard cut-off switch. Operator1 has a mandatory court appearance in Montgomery County Court on 10/01/2019.  Subject1 was awaiting results of her cat scan and was still complaining of back pain.
  
  Operator1''s watercraft was a total loss and valued at around $2,000.
  