RedactedNarrative: On July 14, 2018, at approximately 1840, a single vessel accident occurred on the Blind River in Livingston Parish causing the vessel’s operator and 2 passengers to be significantly injured. Upon conclusion of investigation the following was determined to have occurred:  
  
  Vessel LA-8216-GD was traveling upstream on the Blind River with operator at the helm in full control of the vessel. According to passenger/witnesses he was looking at his phone and conversing with his male passenger seated beside him. As a result of the distraction, Operator1 steered his vessel dangerously close to the shoreline causing it to collide with a large cypress tree. This collision caused him to lose control of his vessel and the female passenger which was seated forward of the console to be ejected into the water. The vessel sustained heavy structural damage.
  
  Subsequent blood test indicated operator’s blood alcohol concentration to be a .16g%
  Based on all evidence to date investigators concluded that Operator Inattention and Alcohol Impairment were the contributing factors in this incident’s occurrence. 
  
  Note: operator1 was subsequently arrested and booked on 3 counts of vehicular negligent injury, 1-count of operating a vessel while intoxicated and 1-count of reckless operation.
  