ON SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 2023, AT APPROXIMATELY 4:00PM, V1 OPERATOR WAS OPERATING A 1999 21' SEA RAY 210 BR ON LAKE TILLERY.  V1 OPERATOR WAS DOCKING HIS VESSEL.  WHILE DOCKING, HE COLLIDED WITH A DOCKED PONTOON STYLE VESSEL DIRECTLY TO HIS PORT SIDE.   ALSO, V2 OWNER, WHO IS THE OWNER OF VESSEL 2 CLAIMS THAT V1 OPERATOR STRUCK HIS BOAT ON THE PORT SIDE.

V1 OPERATOR WAS THE OPERATOR OF HIS VESSEL AND WAS POSITIONED IN THE OPERATOR'S SEAT.   FIVE OTHER PASSENGERS WERE IN THE PASSENGER SEATING AT THE FRONT AND REAR OF THE VESSEL.  PASSENGER 2 AND PASSENGER 3 WERE SEATED AT THE FRONT OF THE VESSEL. PASSENGER 1, PASSENGER 4 AND PASSENGER 5 WERE IN THE BACK OF THE VESSEL.   V2 OWNER WHO IS THE OWNER OF VESSEL 2 CLAIMS THAT V1 OPERATOR COLLIDED WITH HIS VESSEL 0N THE PORT SIDE.  AFTER WITNESSING THE COLLISION, V2 OWNER ASSISTED V1 OPERATOR DOCK HIS VESSEL.  NO ONE WAS ABOARD V2 OWNER'S DOCKED VESSEL.  NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED AS A RESULT OF THIS INCIDENT.

OFFICER 1 AND OFFICER 2 MET WITH THE OWNERS AND OBSERVED BOTH VESSEL ONE AND VESSEL TWO.  VESSEL TWO WAS OBSERVED ON AUGUST 22ND AND HAD AN APPROXIMATE EIGHT TO NINE INCH GOUGE IN THE FIBERGLASS AT APPROXIMATELY MID VESSEL JUST ABOVE THE RUB RAIL.  VESSEL ONE WAS OBSERVED ON AUGUST 24TH AND HAD NO VISUAL AND APPARENT DAMAGE.  THERE WAS A SMALL TRANSFER MARK ON THE FRONT OF THE ALUMINUM BOW RAIL AND THE SAMPLE SCRATCHED OFF APPEARED TO MATCH THE DARK GRAY GLITTER PAINT OF VESSEL TWO.  DUE TO THE TIME LAPSE BETWEEN THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT TO THE TIME IT WAS REPORTED, FAULT IN THIS INCIDENT CANNOT BE DETERMINED.  V1 OPERATOR DENIES STRIKING V2 OWNER'S VESSEL.  AT THIS TIME INVESTIGATING OFFICERS ARE UNABLE TO DEFINITIVELY DETERMINE IF VESSEL 1 COLLIDED WITH VESSEL 2.

NO OFFICERS WERE NOTIFIED ON THE DAY OF THE INCIDENT.  BOTH PARTIES EXCHANGED INFORMATION AT SCENE ON 06/18/2023.  V2 OWNER RECEIVED A QUOTE FOR THE DAMAGE WHICH WAS REPORTED AT $2,568.64.


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