RedactedNarrative: ON MAY 28, 2021 AT APPROXIMATELY 4:00 P.M. IN ROWAN COUNTY THERE WERE TWO PWCS OPERATING BETWEEN FLAT SWAMP CREEK AND ABBOTT'S CREEK IN THE MAIN CHANNEL OF HIGH ROCK LAKE.  THE WEATHER WAS SUNNY WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 80'S AND SLIGHTLY WINDY.  VESSEL ONE WAS OPERATED BY OP1 WITH 1 PASSENGER.  VESSEL TWO WAS OPERATED BY OP2, WHICH HAS COMPLETED THE BOATER SAFETY EDUCATION CLASS AND OBTAINED A BOATER SAFETY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE.  VESSEL ONE SLOWED TO A STOP AND VESSEL TWO STRUCK VESSEL ONE IN THE REAR.
  VESSEL ONE AND TWO OPERATED OUT OF FLAT SWAMP INTO THE MAIN CHANNEL BETWEEN FLAT SWAMP CREEK AND ABBOTT'S CREEK ON THE ROWAN COUNTY SIDE.  WHILE THEY WERE CRUISING.  VESSEL TWO WAS FOLLOWING DIRECTLY BEHIND VESSEL ONE WHEN VESSEL ONE LET OFF THE THROTTLE BRINGING IT TO A STOP.  VESSEL TWO THEN LET OFF THE THROTTLE TO AVOID A COLLISION BUT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL AND COLLIDED INTO THE BACK RIGHT CORNER OF VESSEL ONE.  THE INITIAL IMPACT WAS MADE WITH THE BOW OF VESSEL TWO INTO THE BACK RIGHT CORNER OF VESSEL ONE.  VESSEL TWO RAN OVER TOP OF VESSEL ONE ON THE RIGHT SIDE COMING TO A STOP.  THE IMPACT CAUSED THE OPERATOR AND PASSENGER TO FALL INTO THE WATER.
  THE IMPACT OF VESSEL TWO CAUSED SERIOUS INJURIES TO BOTH THE PASSENGER AND OPERATOR OF VESSEL ONE. THE PASSENGER SUFFERED A LIVER LACERATION, FRACTURED BACK AND MINOR CUTS AND BRUISING.  THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL ONE SUFFERED A BROKEN NOSE FROM HITTING THE HANDLEBAR OF HER PWC.  THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL TWO HAD NO INJURIES.  LIFE JACKETS AND KILL SWITCHES WERE WORN BY BOTH OPERATORS. THE PASSENGER OF VESSEL ONE WAS ALSO WEARING A LIFE JACKET.  THE TWO VICTIMS ON VESSEL ONE WERE ASSISTED BY ANOTHER VESSEL AND TRANSPORTED BY FIRE BOAT TO DUTCH SECOND BOATING ACCESS AREA.  THEY WERE THEN TRANSPORTED BY AMBULANCE TO NOVANT HOSPITAL IN SALISBURY.  THE PASSENGER OF VESSEL ONE WAS TRANSPORTED TO BAPTIST HOSPITAL IN WINSTON-SALEM AFTER ARRIVING AT NOVANT HOSPITAL.  THERE WERE MINOR DAMAGES TO BOTH PWCS.  VESSEL ONE'S DAMAGES INCLUDE A BROKEN BACK SEAT HANDLE, RIPPED BACK SEAT, MINOR SCUFF MARKS TO THE STARBOARD STERN, AND SCUFF MARKS TO THE HANDLEBAR.  DAMAGES TO VESSEL TWO INCLUDE SCUFF MARKS TO THE BOW EYE, SCUFF MARKS TO THE FIBERGLASS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BOW EYE, AND MINOR SCUFF MARKS ALONG THE LEFT SIDE. THERE WERE SERIOUS INJURIES TO BOTH OPERATOR AND PASSENGER OF VESSEL ONE.  THE OPERATOR HAD A SEVERELY BROKEN NOSE AND THE PASSENGER HAD AN INJURED BACK AND LACERATED LIVER.  BOTH HAVE BEEN TREATED AND RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL.  THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL TWO SUFFERED NO INJURIES.  ALCOHOL AND DRUGS WERE NOT A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN THIS INCIDENT.
  
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