ON 9/17/2023, AT APPROXIMATELY 11:55 PM, OPERATOR and OCCUPANT WERE LEAVING THE BEACH CLUB ON MADELINE ISLAND BY BOAT WHEN THEY STRUCK THE M/V LA POINTE AND M/V MADELINE FERRYS THAT WERE MOORED AT THE FERRY LANDING PIER. OPERATOR WAS UNFAMILIAR WITH THE AREA AND BELIEVED HE WAS DRIVING AROUND THE FERRY LANDING BREAKWALL INSTEAD OF TOWARDS THE FERRY LANDING PIER. OPERATOR WAS OPERATING ON PLANE GOING WHAT HE BELIEVED TO BE 25-30 MPH AT THE TIME OF THE COLLISION. THE COLLISION CAUSED OPERATOR TO GO THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD OF THE BOAT HITTING HIS HEAD AND KNOCKING HIM UNCONSCIOUS. OPERATOR SUFFERED A CONCUSSION AND LATER SOUGHT MEDICAL TREATMENT BOTH AT THE MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER EMERGENCY ROOM IN ASHLAND AND AT HIS PRIMARY CARE DOCTOR. OPERATOR SAID THEY HAD BEEN DRINKING BEER WHILE FISHING THAT AFTERNOON AND HAD 4 DRINKS AT THE BEACH CLUB. OPERATOR WAS ASKED BETWEEN 0-10 HOW INTOXICATED HE WAS. OPERATOR SAID HE WAS AT A 4. USCG ADMINISTERED FIELD SOBRIETY TESTS ON HIM AND HE PROVIDED A PBT SAMPLE 3 TIMES AT .04.
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