RedactedNarrative: On September 13, 2019, Sgt. contacted me to follow up on an injury boat accident that had happened on the Cumberland River below Wolf Creek Dam near Helm Landing Boat Ramp. Contacting Russell County Dispatch for further information, I learned the accident scene had already been cleared and the victims had been transported to receive medical treatment. 
  
  The boat operator had been flown out due to chest and abdominal pain. He was transported to UK in Lexington, KY and his son the passenger on the boat was was transported by ambulance to Russell County Hospital and then onto Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital due to chest pains as well. I met the passenger victim at Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital.
   
  There I was able to get directions to the location of the boat. It had been pulled out of the water and relocated to a cabin the victims were staying at. Officer was able to locate the boat on its trailer and document the damage. He later sent photographs of the vessel involved. The passenger also had a photograph of the boat on his cell phone that he had shown me. The boat is 2003 Triton 17ft aluminum hull boat with registration KY-0410-AE. 
  
  Interviewing Subject, I learned he and his father had been out fishing on the river since 13:00 hours. They had drifted down the river between 12 – 15 miles to the Rock House area. He stated traveling back up the river, they were about 30 – 40 ft. from the bank on river right side. They were about a mile from Helm's Landing and traveling approximately 35 – 40 mph. They had passed another vessel that was heading down river, the passenger stated they waved at the two occupants onboard and continued on upstream. The passenger stated he was sitting in the passenger seat to the left of the operator’s seat. He pulled his phone out to see what time it was, that’s when they struck something fixed in the water which ejected him out on the left side.
  
  He estimated he was thrown into the water from the boat between 20 – 25 ft. He stated he had to swim about 5 ft. before he could touch the bottom of the river. He then walked the rest of the way to the shore. He could see his boat still moving forward upstream, but he couldn’t see his father. Then he heard the boat throttle down and turned back his way. He stated the boat came back to his location, but his dad couldn’t do anything but lay down due to having chest and abdomenal pains.
  
  A few minutes later the boat they had passed earlier came back through. They waved them down for assistance. There medical support was called in. Subject, was transported by EMS and his father was flown out by helicopter. 
  
  At Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, several tests were ran on Subject, visible injuries appeared to be contusions on his left arm and lacerations on each leg in the sheen area, but did not require stitches. The doctor there advised Subject that he was going to be transported to UK in Lexington, due to a possible laceration on his spleen. I concluded my interview and took photographs of visible injuries. I informed Subject that I would follow up with him at a later date.
  
  Witness indicated the operator was laying in the floor of the boat and had his arm off the side waving them over. Once they pulled up they noticed about 20 ft. away was the passenger on the shore. The operator was bleeding in a few places. He stated he advised his son to go pick up the guy on the shore and he jumped in the damaged boat. He turned the bilge pump on pushed forward on the throttle heading up river to Helm Landing. There they contacted 911 for help. I concluded the interview by obtaining contact information and asked if they had seen what the boat possibly had hit. He stated his son thought he had seen a tree that had marks on it as if something had hit it.
  
  On September 14, 2019 at 14:30 hours, Officer conducted an interview with Operator at the UK Chandler Hospital in Lexington, KY. Operator stated he and his son had just drifted cable lines and when coming back past the second cable, he was moving to the other side, going from right to left to get into deeper water. They were laughing and cutting up when all of a sudden the left side of the boat raised up and he hit the steering wheel and was thrown down in the floor. He realized his son was gone out of the boat. He remembered when he started pulling himself back up in the boat that it was still running. He then caught sight of his son’s green shirt down river. He drifted back down but had put it in gear to come around the snag to get to his son on shore. He seen two guys in a boat passing as he was partially in the seat and wrapped around the console. The guys seen him waving his hands and came over. One of the guys was a doctor in Jamestown. When he hit the steering wheel, he didn’t lose consciousness because he didn’t hit his head. He guessed after talking to the people at the hospital, it was all from where he hit the steering wheel on his left side. The guys on the other boat decided to go ahead and take my son to Helm’s Landing and the doctor stayed with me. The doctor decided I needed to be air cared to Lexington. These events all took place on Friday, September 13, 2019. Officer then concluded his interview with the boat operator.  
  
  On September 16, 2019, I contacted subject3 to get his statement via phone. He confirmed what his father had stated and did notice marks on a tree. However, he stated the tree he seen marks on was at the water’s edge and not 30 – 40 ft. out in the river. He also stated when they made contact with the boat, it was located at the shoreline where the tree was marked. On the ride side or the boat was a tributary stream that fed into the river, on the other side of it was the passenger of the boat. He was completely wet from where he had been thrown in the water.
  
  