RedactedNarrative: ON MAY 9TH AT APPROXIMATLEY 1945 HRS, VESSEL 1 OPERATOR STRUCK A TREE LIMB AS THE VESSEL WAS COMING IN A TURN ON THE NEUSE RIVER.  THE TREE LIMB STRUCK OPERATOR ON HIS FOREHEAD CAUSING A DEEP CUT AND A HEAD CONCUSSION.  VESSEL 1 ALSO HAD TWO MORE OCCUPANTS ONBOARD BY THE NAMES OF PASSENGER 1 AND PASSENGER 2 WHO WITNESSED THE EVENT.  VESSEL 1 THEN PROCEEDED TO THE MAPLE CYPRESS BOAT RAMP.  ONCE AT THE BOAT RAMP, I OFFICER 1, TALKED WITH OPERATOR.  I COULD SEE THAT HE HAD A DEEP CUT AND WAS BLEEDING.  WHILE TALKING WITH OPERATOR HE BEGAN TO STUMBLE AND COMPLAINED THAT HIS HEAD WAS HURTING.  OPERATOR SAID HE HAD STRUCK A TREE LIMB.  I CALLED FOR EMS.  OPERATOR TOLD ME THAT HE HAD CONSUMED TWO BEERS.  I COMPLETED FIELD SOBRIETY TESTS AND FOUND TWO CLUES ON HGN.  OPERATOR DID NOT GIVE A BREATH SAMPLE.  OPERATOR ABOUT PASSED OUT WHILE TALKING AND COMPLETING FIELD SOBRIETY TEST.  I COULD SMELL THE ODOR OF AN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE ON OPERATOR'S BREATH.  OPERATOR WAS TRANSPORTED TO CRAVEN HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS TREATED.  I THEN INVESTIGATED VESSEL 1 AND FOUND BLOOD ON THE CONSOLE WHERE OPERATOR WAS OPERATING.  I CHECKED ALL SAFETY EQUIPMENT AND CONCLUDED MY INVESTIGATION.
  
  ********PLEASE NOTE:  EVEN THOUGH THE OPERATOR HAD CONSUMED SOME ALCOHOL, IT WAS NOT A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN THIS INCIDENT.*******************************
  
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