RedactedNarrative: ON MONDAY APRIL 18, 2016 AT APPROXIMATELY 3:45 PM, A SINGLE VESSEL ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON FALLS LAKE RESULTING IN ONE FATALITY AND ONE INJURY. THE APPROXIMATE LOCATION WAS JUST WEST OF THE HWY 50 BRIDGE  ANDTO THE NORTH OF AN ISLAND LOCATED IN BETWEEN THE HWY 50 BRIDGE AND ROLLING VIEW MARINA. 
  
  THE OPERATOR, OPERATOR#1, AGE 69, AND HIS PASSENGER, PASSENGER#1, AGE 54, WERE TRAVELING WEST TOWARDS THE HWY 50 BRIDGE IN OPERATOR#1'S 1990 RANGER BASS BOAT, ON PLANE, TO A COVE TO CONTINUE FISHING. THEY HAD BEEN RECREATIONAL FISHING IN ANOTHER COVE AND DECIDED TO CHANGE LOCATIONS. THE LAKE THAT DAY WAS VERY CALM WITH LITTLE TO NO WIND AND VERY LITTLE BOAT TRAFFIC.  ACCORDING TO FIVE WITNESSES THAT WERE INTERVIEWED, IT APPEARS THAT OPERATOR#1'S BOAT MADE AN ABRUPT RIGHT TURN, EJECTING BOTH OPERATOR#1 AND PASSENGER#1 OUT THE PORT SIDE OF THE VESSEL. IT IS STILL UNCERTAIN AS TO WHY EXACTLY THE ABRUPT RIGHT TURN WAS MADE BUT ACCORDING THE PASSENGER, PASSENGER#1, THEY HIT A WAKE. NO ONE EVER SAW OPERATOR#1 SURFACE.  THERE WAS A CENTER CONSOLE VESSEL TROLLING THE MIDDLE OF THE CHANNEL NEARBY AND THE WITNESSES ABOARD WERE ABLE TO THROW PASSENGER#1 A TYPE IV AND PULL HER SAFELY ABOARD THEIR VESSEL. SHORTLY AFTER, ANOTHER NEARBY WITNESS WAS ABLE TO JUMP ABOARD OPERATOR#1'S VESSEL THAT WAS STILL IN MOTION DOING CIRCLES UP THE LAKE AND SAFELY TURN OFF THE VESSEL. WAKE COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT AND BAYLEAF FIRE DEPARTMENT WERE THE FIRST RESPONDERS TO ARRIVE ON SCENE. THEY WERE ABLE TO GET PASSENGER#1 BACK TO THE HWY 50 RAMP TO RECEIVE MEDICAL ATTENTION AND TO BE TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL.  THE SEARCH CONTINUED INTO THE NIGHT FOR OPERATOR#1. OPERATOR#1'S BODY; IT WAS RECOVERED SIX DAYS LATER AFTER SURFACING. 
  
  PASSENGER#1 WAS HOSPITALIZED FOR FIVE DAYS DUE TO HER INJURIES WHICH INCLUDED: WATER IN THE LUNGS FROM NEAR DROWNING, A MILD HEART ATTACK WHILE IN THE WATER, A TORN ROTARY CUFF, A HERNIATED DISK IN HER BACK, CRACKED RIBS ON HER RIGHT SIDE, BRUISING ON HER LEFT SIDE, AND A SMALL HEMATOMA ON THE BACK OF HER BRAIN.
  OPERATOR#1 WAS STRUCK BY THE PROPELLER WITH SEVERAL LACERATIONS ON HIS LEFT ARM AND CHEST (SEE IMAGE 4). 
  
  THE BOAT HAD MINIMAL DAMAGE WITH A SECTION OF THE PORT SIDE RAILING AND PLASTIC AROUND THE GAS CAP MISSING FROM WHERE PASSENGER#1 HIT UPON EJECTION FROM THE VESSEL (SEE IMAGES 1and2). THERE WAS ALSO A SECTION OF OPERATOR#1'S SHIRT IN THE PROPELLER (SEE IMAGE 3). 
  
  BASED ON THE INVESTIGATION I CONDUCTED AND AFTER INTERVIEWING THE WITNESSES INCLUDING PASSENGER#1, IT IS STILL UNCERTAIN WHY OPERATOR#1 MADE AN ABRUPT RIGHT TURN CAUSING THE VESSEL TO HEEL DRAMATICALLY AND TO EJECT BOTH PASSENGERS. NO CHARGES WERE FILED, NO ALCOHOL WAS INVOLVED, AND ALL THE SAFETY EQUIPMENT WAS ABOARD.  NEITHER VICTIM WAS WEARING A LIFE JACKET AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT.
  
  IMAGE 1and2 DEPICT DAMAGE TO THE VESSELS PORT SIDE RAIL AND GAS CAP
  IMAGE 3 DEPICTS OPERATOR#1'S SHIRT IN THE PROP
  IMAGE 4 DEPICTS PROP INJURIES TO OPERATOR#1
  