On 4/20/2023 TWRA was contacted regarding a personal watercraft collision between two personal watercrafts that had occurred on 4/18/2023. The caller, who was the operator of the listed vessel 2 advised TWRA dispatch that there were no parties hurt in the incident but was requesting a report of the incident. After speaking with this operator he had stated that on the 18th he and his friend were driving the two personal watercrafts, that were owned by the reporting parties parents, in the back end of Wolftever Creek. While they were riding the two vessels came in too close of proximity to each other and collided. The reporting party, who was the operator of the listed vessel 2 stated that the operator on vessel 1 had been making attempts to splash him with his respected vessel. Before the collision the vessel 1 operator made another attempt to splash the operator of vessel 2 but got too close and the two ended up colliding. The account of this collision is based on the statement of the vessel 2 operator. Attempts were made on 4/22/2023 to call the operator of vessel 2 but nobody answered the phone. The reporting party had stated that they had a gentleman’s agreement that the vessel 1 operator would buy the vessel off of the reporting party. There is damage of the collision on the right side of the bottom half of vessel 2’s hull. It was indicated by the operator that the bottom half of his hull had contacted the left rear corner of the striking vessel where there was limited damage remaining. The reporting party also stated that he has text messages stating the other party was sorry for the incident and further claimed that he also was the operator of the vessel. This reporting party stated also that he vessel 1 operator is no longer returning text messages and phone calls. This incident took place in Hamilton County.
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