RedactedNarrative: On May 17th, 2022, At approximately 1715 hrs, V1 was traveling northeast on Hampton Lake when it entered a county idle speed zone at the entrance to a canal. The entrance of the canal was posted with a county idle speed zone sign and danger rocks stay clear sign that V1 would have to have passed in clear view at close proximity. V1 was traveling at or near full throttle approximately 35-40 mph when it approached a large bridge culvert at East Hampton Point Rd. V1 would have had to make a turn to port in order to navigate the 19’ wide, 7’10” center height bridge culvert at East Hampton Point Road. This turn to port caused the vessel to enter a slide due to the flat bottom hull design and jack plate being completely elevated limiting steerage input from the operator. This slide to starboard caused the vessel to strike the southeast entrance of the bridge culvert as evidenced by damage on the structure and the aft starboard side of the vessel. This contact with the bridge culvert ejected one occupant out of the vessel who was subsequently struck by the vessel propeller and suffered fatal injuries. Due to the impact with the bridge culvert the operator lost control of the steerage of the vessel as it exited the culvert after striking the ejected occupant. The feedback steering system on the vessel caused a hard turn to starboard and the vessel struck several cypress trees along the canal edge as evidenced by damage on the port side of the vessel and cypress trees. The operator and the remaining four passengers were ejected from the vessel onto the shoreline. Operator has refused to cooperate with this investigation and his Attorney has implied that he would be invoking his 5th amendment right against self incrimination. Due to this refusal to provide any information I was unable to determine how much operator and boating experience operator possessed. See ISR 108877 for full narrative, crash analysis, and issuance of citations.; 
  Deceased: Fatality due to chopping injuries to head and neck caused by vessel propeller. ; 
  Injured 1: Tailbone injury, lumbosacral strain, and a concussion.
  Injured 2: Road rash scrape on the middle of her back and a bruise on the inside of her arm in addition to cuts on her feet.; 
  Injured 3: Brusing on back; 
  Injured 4: Cuts to feet, bruising to arms and torso.; 
  