RedactedNarrative: Details of the incident/investigation:
  	on 7-24-2019 at approximately 8:15 am i, indiana conservation officer, was on patrol on lake freeman.  Carroll county dispatch advised of a boat crash near the sportsman inn on lake freeman in carroll county.  I was told that it involved three children and one was injured.  Monticello fire, ems, police and ico lt. responded to the scene.  After i arrived, i noticed that there was two children and one adult male in the boat.  There was a female victim in the water and ems was working on her. An adult female later identified as the boat operator and young male were standing on shore.  I took several pictures of the scene and started getting information from the people involved.   
  
  	I spoke to operator and asked her what had happened.  She told me she was going north and started to turn to go back south.  Operator said that she turned to the west but was looking to the east. She said that the sun was in her eyes and the docks were in the shade.  She said she did not see them due to her glasses transitioning to a darker shade.  Operator stated she had slowed down to about 20 miles per hour and that subject1 was the observer and did not tell her that the children were close to the dock.  Operator stated that as she made the turn and was too close to the dock and the middle passenger on the three seater tube hit the dock.  
  
  It should be noted that victim2 was the passenger in the middle.  The other passengers on the tube were victim1 and subject4.  Operator stated that subject4 told her he was thrown over the dock and victim1 was thrown off the tube.  Victim1 had minor injuries to her head and lower body.  She was treated and released from iu arnett hospital in monticello.  Subject4 was not injured and assisted helping with victim2 in the water.  Victim2 complained of neck pain and weakness in her legs.  She was transported to iu arnett hospital in monticello and eventually flown to riley hospital in indianapolis as a precaution.  
  	She said she had over 500 hours of operation but had never had any formal training.  I asked if the boat had any mechanical issues and she said no and that it ran great.  I asked if the speedometer worked and she said no.  I asked her how she knew that she was only going 20 mph and she said it was a guess based on her tachometer.  I asked her if she knew how long the rope was on the tube, and she told me that it was the rope that came with it, and she did not know how long it was.  I asked her if there was anything else she could think of and she said that her glasses were darkened by the sun, and that was another reason that she did not see the docks.
  	i went back to the sportsman inn and measured the length of the pier and it measured 28 feet 10 inches.  I measured the tube tow rope and it measured 48 feet 4 inches.  The rope was ripped from the tube due to the impact with the pier.  I also took photographs of the damage to the 2 x 6 on the pier.  I spoke to the manager of the sportsman inn and asked him to get an estimate of the damage to the pier.  He said he would and call me with the information. 
  
  A witness told me that the boat was going fast and was turning, and the people on the tube crashed into the dock.  I had him give me a written statement for the incident.    
  	on 7-30-19 i contacted the sportsman inn in reference to the damage estimate to the pier.  HE told me that the driver of the boat had made arrangements to fix the damage and he did not care anyways about the pier.  I made contact with operator and asked her how the girls were doing.  She told me that victim1 had no injuries and had been released immediately from the hospital.  She also stated that victim2 had received contusions to her lungs and kidneys, a broken right collar bone and a cracked vertebrae.  Operator said that the lung and kidney injuries were healed already and that victim2 was not in much pain and was doing well.  I issued operator a citation for imprudent boat operation.
  	based on my training and experience i believe that speed and lack of attention by the observer, tow rope length, and time of day is a contributing factors to the crash.
  