I guess the guy in front decided to slow down and go no wake under the railroad bridge? SMH

that link is to a pic, where is a video?

If you scroll down a bit in the comments the passenger has video

thanks!!

That DA was driving like he stole it, what a fool!!

Actually, both are at fault.

The guy idling in the no wake zone is at fault?

We saw some dudes from Oklahoma coming in late to weigh in yesterday at PK and they were busting the wake zone into Possum Hollow. Lots of jack wagons out there that will do stupid stuff for a fish and a check.

They were both running on pad in the no wake zone. Front boat let off at the bridge and back boat had no idea it was gonna happen. Both were at fault of breaking a law that led up to the accident.

If not mistaken here, and if I’m wrong please point that out.

My understanding is both boats were running wide open to get back in time for their weigh in, the first boat saw the railroad bridge and he thought better of running under it wide open, when he let of the gas the boat behind did not have time to stop quick enough….boats do not have brakes here. But this is how I understand that it happened.
These two boats were in the lock and they said let’s run wide open to try and get back, the other boat, the boat that came up on the accident, already knew he wasn’t getting back in time so he let. One of those boats in front of him to run it like he stoled it.

That how I understand what happened and thus, those two boat drivers put their lives, co anglers lives and well could have ran into another boat along the way and killed people….yea that $200 check was all worth it. Even if they even got a check, probably not.

Dadgum, that's a serious case of the "Dumb A$$'s".

More than likely that would not be a plausible defense in a court of law, either civil nor criminal.

Yes the guy who got ran over was in violation prior to being run over, but had he began to comply to the regulation prior to the time he was ran over by the other boat?

His slowing down does not justify being ran over from behind. Perhaps he to would be sited for violation of a no wake zone prior to the collision, but the guy who was negligent doesn't get a free pass when the other dumb [censored] in front of him slows down. They were both wrong for running a no wake zone, but the dude that ran over the other boat would likely be at fault in the accident.

Simple "rule of the road" for water craft, "Overtaking: The vessel that is overtaking another vessel is the give-way vessel. The vessel being overtaken is the stand-on vessel"


All in all what a sh** show and a legal mess. Luckily nobody was killed.

Wonder when one of their wives will get on Fakebook or tweeter and blame it all on electronics.
Probably won’t be long before the resident apologists will show up here too and start lecturing everyone about being too judgmental about these two chowderheads.

It was definitely the “forward lookers” fault….

The longer I fish the more in favor I become of trailering events. The more spread out you can get the idiots in the bass fishing world, the safer everyone is. My starting spots always suck so I never feel to inclined to kill myself getting to them.