RedactedNarrative: ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 3, 2021 AT APPROXIMATELY 7:00 P.M., I RECEIVED A REPORT OF A BOAT INCIDENT FROM RALIEGH COMMUNICATIONS CENTER. THE INCIDENT OCCURRED ON LAKE ROYALE NEAR PALOMINO COVE.  IT INVOLVED A PWC AND A RECREATIONAL VESSEL PROCEEDING NORTH IN THE MAIN LAKE CHANNEL TOWARDS MOCCASIN BOAT LANDING. TWO OPERATORS, FROM TWO DIFFERENT VESSELS WERE INVOLVED, WHICH RESULTED IN PROPERTY DAMAGE GREATER THAN $2,000.00. 
  
  AT APPROXIMATELY 5:30 P.M. ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 3, 2021, VESSEL 1, A PERSONAL WATERCRAFT, WAS TRAVELING NORTH ON LAKE ROYALE ADJACENT TO VESSEL 2. THE WEATHER WAS CLEAR, AND THERE WAS MODERATE BOAT TRAFFIC. THE AIR TEMPERATURE WAS 75 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT, AND THE WATER TEMPERATURE WAS 70 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT. WIND WAS CALM, AND THE VISIBILITY WAS GOOD. 
  
  VESSEL 2 WAS RECREATIONAL CRUISING AT APPROXIMATELY 40 MILES PER HOUR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LAKE CHANNEL NEAR BIG HORN DRIVE.  VESSEL 1 WAS RECREATIONAL CRUISING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS VESSEL 2.  VESSEL 1 WAS OPERATING IN A CARELESS AND RECKLESS MANNER AT APPROXIMATELY 40 MILES PER HOUR WHEN HE MADE AN ABRUPT TURN TO THE LEFT TOWARDS VESSEL 2.  VESSEL 1 STRUCK VESSEL 2 ON THE STARBOARD SIDE NEAR THE OPERATOR'S SEAT.   AFTER IMPACTING VESSEL 2, THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 1 WAS EJECTED FROM THE PWC INTO THE WATER DUE TO THE HIGH RATE OF SPEED.  BOTH VESSELS SUSTAINED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE FROM THE IMPACT. THERE WERE NO PERSONAL INJURIES. 
  
  A GOOD SAMARITAN STOPPED IN THE WATER TO AID THE OPERATOR OF VESSEL 1 AND HELP GET HIS PWC BACK TO THE BOAT RAMP. 
  
  I ARRIVED AT THE SCENE AT APPROXIMATELY 8:00 P.M. BOTH VESSELS WERE LOADED ON THE TRAILER AND WERE LOCATED AT THEIR RESIDENCE WHERE I BEGAN MY INVESTIGATION.
  
  
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