DC patrol boat crash

[lakerunner]

Hopefully they don't happen in "three's"....another Water Patrol accident at Lake of the Ozarks..

http://lakeexpo.com/news/lake_news/arti ... 963f4.html

There is ton of misinformation and facts left out in that LakeExpo article. One example is that the WP office was either thrown from or jumped from his patrol boat. The WP patrol was circling the main channel, with lights flashing, and the officer was pulled from the lake some distance from the actual accident. The driver of the boat got hit, never took a breathalyzer test at the scene due to his injuries, although blood was drawn at the hospital and the test results aren't back yet. The BWI is a CYA from the WP.

Then who was driving the boat? and what the hell is The BWI is a CYA from the WP?

[BoatCop]

BWI = Boating While Intoxicated

CYA = Cover Your Ass

WP = Water Patrol

He's trying to say that the only reason they got the guy for for drunk boating is to deflect responsibility from the cops.

I don't know the full story, but if the Patrol Boat struck the other boat on the starboard side, it indicates to me that that the Patrol Boat was in the other boat's "danger zone" making the Patrol boat the stand-on vessel (has right of way) and the civilian boat the give-way vessel.

There are probably other factors, including the responsibility for all vessels to use take necessary action to avoid collision, but based solely on Navigation Rules, it appears that the civilian boat was the primary cause of the collision.

And although the "official" BAC test may not be back from the Police lab yet, the hospital would have taken blood tests in the ER and the BWI would have been based on the hospital's results. Good enough to charge, but may not be able to be used at trial, hence the sample sent to the official police lab.