RedactedNarrative: On 07/03/2022 at approximately 1020 PM, I, Officer First Class and Officer First Class, both sworn officers of the Maryland Natural Resource Police, did respond to a boat accident in Sullivan’s Cove on the Severn River. The accident occurred at a T-pier located at the Olde Severna Park Community Beach and was between a docked sailboat and a disembarking powerboat.
  
                  Both officers arrived on-scene at approximately 1030 PM, OFC made contact with the operator of the striking vessel. Operator1 had been in the process of undocking from the head of the T-pier when he noticed the diving board on the right end of the T-pier. He shifted the vessel into neutral just as the wake from an unknown passing vessel out on the Severn River caused him to accidentally shift to full power in forward gear. The acceleration of the vessel threw Operator1 overboard, and the vessel impacted on the starboard bow of the sailing vessel docked at the left end of the T-Pier.
  
                  I made contact with the operator of the struck vessel. With him onboard were his three sons. Operator2 advised that he had just returned from the fireworks display at Sherwood Forest, and had just dropped his family off when he observed the striking vessel backing down from the T-pier, then suddenly shift into forward and accelerate. The striking vessel struck the starboard bow of Operator2’s vessel, coming up out of the water. Operator2’s son was able to board the vessel, and take it out of gear, and pull the motor kill switch. The striking vessel was then able to be safely moved off Operator2’s vessel, and Operator1 was assisted out of the water. Operator1 was shaken, but uninjured, and all personnel onboard were uninjured.
  
  The sailing vessel sustained damage on the starboard bow. A 1-2 foot section of the wood teak on the gunwhale was cracked, the cable railing from bow to aft had been broken, and at least one cable running from the mast to the deck had snapped. There were also marks in the gel-coat on the hull. Operator2 advised that the damage was over $3500.
  
                  No charges were issued.
  
                  All events took place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
  