RedactedNarrative: On April 23, 2016, Sergeant and I, Corporal, both Conservation Rangers with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, were patrolling the Chattahoochee River utilizing my assigned state riverboat in the vicinity of the boat ramp at Franklin in Heard County. 
  
  I noticed a boat traveling South towards my patrol boat location. I noticed what appeared to be a fish basket being held by a occupant seated on a pedestal seat at the bow of the boat. As the boat passed by my location neither the operator nor the bow occupant looked in my direction. I began to follow this boat which was a 15 foot Alumacraft aluminum boat powered by a Mercury 25 horsepower outboard engine and it displayed GA 0307 VK as a Georgia boat registration at the bow. While following the vessel, hereafter referrred to as vessel #1, we passed underneath the first power line that crosses the Chattahoochee River. At 18:55 hours, just below the power line I witnessed vessel #1 strike and run over an anchored Tracker Topper 10 aluminum Jon boat, hereafter referred to as vessel #2, containing two occupants and eject them into the water. 
  
  I maneuvered my patrol vessel to the ejected persons still in the water, an adult male and a male child. The adult male was hanging on to the child whom was wearing a personal flotation device. Sgt. and I pulled them into my patrol boat. The adult male whom had been seated as the operator at the rear seat of vessel #2,  was identified and the child previously seated at the bow seat was his son.   
  
  I overheard Sgt. call in to Troop D Communications to report the incident and request emergency services. I heard the driver of the striking boat, vessel #1, yelling to the bow occupant that he was supposed to be watching and helping. Vessel #1 began to move underpower, I yelled out for that vessel to stop and the operator stopped the boat. 
  
  I pulled over to vessel #1 and obtained a valid Drivers license from the operator of that vessel. Neither occupant of vessel #1 appeared to be injured. I asked Operator1 why he was not watching where he was going. Operator1 told me that his son, the bow occupant, was supposed to be watching because he couldn't see in front of the boat. Operator1 further stated that his son didn't let him know there was anything in front of him. I noticed vessel #2 was being held stationary by a yellow rope attached to an underwater anchor. Vessel # 2 had filled with water but was still partially afloat from onboard flotation.  I maintained possession of the Driver's license and asked Operator1 to follow me back North to the Franklin boat ramp which he did. We left vessel #2 anchored as we traveled to the Franklin boat ramp to meet with emergency services. 
  
  During our travel towards the boat ramp, operator2 complained of his side hurting and seemed to have a hard time breathing but no injuries were openly visible. I watched him take a wet phone out of his pocket and lay it in the floor of my patrol boat. 
  
  At the boat ramp, emergency service personnel took v2 subjects via ambulance to the Newnan Piedmont hospital to be evaluated for injuries and I walked over to Operator1. 
  
  Operator1 proceeded to tell me that he previously always had someone helping him when he carried his son fishing. He told me his son was 15 years old and mentally disabled. He told me again that he could only see left and right and his son was supposed to be looking straight ahead for obstructions. 
  
  I asked Operator1 if he would complete a breath test for alcohol on my state issued Alco-Sensor FST device. Operator1 completed the breath test and produced negative results for the presence of alcohol. I made photos of vessel #1 in the water and then requested that Operator1 put the boat on the trailer. Once on the trailer, I conducted further observation