RedactedNarrative: V1 WAS UNDERWAY TRAVELING SOUTH TO NORTH IN THE ST JOSEPH SOUND, OUTSIDE OF THE MARKED CHANNEL, TO THE SOUTHEAST OF CHANNEL MARKER 16. V2 WAS UNDERWAY TRAVELING WEST TO EAST IN THE MARKED CHANNEL AT 30MPH, WHICH RUNS PARRALLEL TO 62 CAUSEWAY BLVD. V1 WAS TRAVELING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED WITH A NON CONSTANT BEARING TOWARDS THE AFT OF V2. V2 OPERATOR SAW V1 AND BELIEVED HE WAS GOING TO CUT THROUGHT THE CHANNEL AFT OF HIS STERN.
  V2 OPERATOR REDIRECTED HIS ATTENTION TO HIS PORT SIDE TO NAVIGATE HEAVY BOAT TRAFFIC TRAVELING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. V2 DID ATTEMPT A QUICK EVASIVE MOVEMENT TO THE PORT SIDE IN ATTEMPT TO AVOID A COLLISION WITH V1, HOWEVER DUE TO CONGESTED WATERS, WAS UNABLE TO EVADE ANY FURHTER. V1 DID STRIKE V2 AFT OF THE MIDLINE, DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE STERN. OPERATOR OF V1 WAS EJECTED INTO THE WATER AND HAD MAJOR BODILY INURY AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT. V1 OPERATOR WAS TRANSPORTED TO MEASE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AND LATER TO ST JOSEPHS HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS DECLARED DECEASED ON MAY 2, 2021. 
  V2 OPERATOR AND PASSENGERS DID NOT HAVE ANY INJURIES. V1 HAD MAJOR FRONT END DAMAGE, V2 HAD MINOR DAMAGE. BOTH VESSELS WERE IMPOUNDED FOR EVIDENCE VIA CLEARWATER TOWING. 
  THE VICTIM WENT INTO CARDIAC ARREST ON SCENE, BUT WAS LATER STABLIZED AT THE HOSPITAL. THE VICTIM HAD DILATED/FIXED PUPILS, A SWOLLEN RIGHT KNEE AND LOWER LEG, A HEMATOMA ON THE BUTTOCK AREA, A DISPLACED RIGHT HUMERUS FRACTURE, MULTIPLE FRACTURES THROUGHOUT THE RIGHT ELBOW, WATER ON HIS LUNGS, A HMEATOMA TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE CHEST AND MULTIPLE RIGHT RIB FRACTURES. THE MEDICAL STAFF WAS ABLE TO ADVISE THE VICTIM HAD NO VISIBLE INJURIES TO HIS NECK, SPINE OR STERNUM, NO BLEEDING OF THE BRAIN AND NO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL IN HIS BLOOD STREAM. IT WAS LATER LEARNED THROUGH AN EEG THE PATIENT DID NOT HAVE ANY BRAIN ACTIVITY. PATIENT WAS REMOVED FROM LIFE SUPPORT AND PRONOUNCED DECEASED AT 2006 HOURS ON MAY 2, 2021.
  