RedactedNarrative: According to 16-year-old  operator1, he was operating vessel 1 at approximately 05:30 hours on october 26, 2018 when the accident occurred.  Operator1 was positioned behind the steering wheel operating while his passenger was sitting directly beside him on the leaning post seat on the starboard side of vessel 1.  According to operator1, they were heading north up the icw at an approximate speed of between 10-20mph on plane in vessel 1.  Operator1 stated that he had the screen brightness on the gps unit located on the center console of vessel 1 turned up on high and that he was looking at it while occasionally glancing over at the edges of the marsh to stay in the middle of the icw channel.  
  
  Operator1 stated that he had already passed a couple of lit channel markers, but he was unable to see the icw day marker 105.  Vessel 1's bow collided with the marine pylon icw day marker 105 located on the icw at green channel.  The impact of the collision ejected the passenger, v1 occupant, from vessel 1.  Immediately after the collision, operator1 stated that vessel 1 turned around and the bow was facing in a southernly direction.  Operator1 stated he heard v1 occupant yelling from the water and that he pulled him up over the portside of vessel 1 near the bow.  Operator1 then contacted his father, and informed him that he had been in an accident and that v1 occupant was injured.  Subject side towed vessel 1 back to the dock at scotts hill marina.  At this point the passenger of vessel 1, v1 occupant, was put in a stretcher and placed in the ambulance.  Operator1 was then treated in the other ambulance for a nose bleed.  
  
  Vessel 1 sustained major damage to the fiberglass and wood on the bow, hull, and deck of the boat and a busted windshield on the starboard side of the center console.  The leaning post was knocked loose from the floor deck of the boat and the outboard engine prop was damaged.  The icw day marker 105 marine pylon was knocked over just above the surface of the water with one of the marker signs missing and the other damaged.  Vessel 1's operator, operator1, sustained a temporary nose bleed and some minor skin abrasions to the hand.  The passenger of vessel, v1 occupant, sustained several lacerations to the forehead requiring stitches and a broken left femur from possibly impacting vessel 1's center console.  V1 occupant was hospitalized requiring surgery to repair his femur.  The operator, operator1, was treated and released the same day.
  
  
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