RedactedNarrative: Responded to report of a 2 boat injury accident on Lake Malone. Upon arrival on scene both boats were afloat near a boat dock on east bank. Both victims were on board respective boats and conscious.  
  
    Operator of Unit #1 was not able to give any cognitive statement on scene. Operator of Unit #2 stated he was in a bass tournament and all he could remember is running down the lake and next thing he knew he was hurt and people were talking to him.  
  
    Another vessel with 2 witnesses was contacted. Two subjects both stated that all 3 vessels were travelling south while participating in a bass tournament that took off at 19:00 hours. Witness1 stated he was operating his vessel alongside Vessel1's vessel running down the lake when all the sudden Vessel1's vessel struck Vessel2's vessel from behind. Witness1 stopped his vessel. Witness1 rendered aid and assistance to first responders.  Witness1 advised that he was boat #5 in take off position, and that he thought Vessel2 was boat # 3, and that Vessel1 was boat #6.  
  
    Upon inspection and documentation of damage on both vessels it appears that Unit #1 travelled up from behind and struck #2 just right of center stern, and travelled over top and landed in front of Unit #2. The engines from both vessels were separated from the transoms. Engine from Unit #2 was still attached with the steering cables. Engine from Unit #1 was not recovered. 
  
    Both victims were transported from the scene by EMS to Logan Memorial Hospital in Russellville. Both were transferred same day to Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, TN with multiple injuries. 
  
    On 5-14-16 I spoke with victim from Unit #2, Vessel2's mother. She advised he had a broken right femur, a broken pelvis, and a broken vertebra in his lower back. 
  
    On 5/20/16 I spoke with victim of Unit #1, Vessel1 at his residence. He stated he had 2 broken vertebra in his lower back, and both lungs were bruised.  He gave a statement as to what he remembered from the accident. He stated that he was boat #8 in the tournament and that he was following witness Witness1's vessel about 50 yards behind when he hit some boat wake. He stated his boat went up in the air and when it came back down he was positioned out of his driver's seat and saw Unit #2 just for a split second before striking it in the transom area. He stated that Vessel2 told him he may have turned in front of him but was not sure what happened.