RedactedNarrative: On June 18th, 2022, at approximately 1800 hours, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission were on duty, in uniform, on water patrol in a marked patrol vessel, in the vicinity of Lignumvitae Botanical State Park, in Monroe County, State of Florida.
  	At approximately 1800 hours, I responded to a boating accident at the intersection of Teatable Key Channel and Yellow Shark Channel. Striking vessel (V1) had 4 occupants on board.  V1's operator lost control of the vessel after trying to overtake the struck vessel (V2) on its wake.  All 4 occupants of V1 were ejected into the water.  V1 continued as a runaway vessel and struck V2 on its rear starboard side.  
  	V2's operator turned around and pulled all 4 occupants of V1 out of the water and transported them to dock.  
  At the completion of all interviews, I concluded that V1 was navigating directly behind V2 still within V2’s wake.  V1 attempted to pass V2 on V2’s starboard side not having indicated its intentions by proper sound signals.  V1’s operator lost control of the vessel while crossing the wake of V2, resulting in V1’s bow to dug into the trough of V2 wake’s wave, causing V1 to roll on its starboard side and ejecting all occupants on board V1.  Due to the operator of V1 not properly wearing a safety lanyard attached to the vessel’s kill switch, V1 continued a forward heading without any occupants on board and struck V2 on the starboard side of the transom and crossed unto V2’s port side.  V1 then came to a stop after running into the mangroves.  V2’s operator turned around, and picked up all occupants of V1 from the water.  V2’s operator dropped off V1’s operator in TowBoat U.S.’ vessel at his request, and then traveled with all other occupants to dock.
   Operator1 had been drinking.