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Not a hunting accident but a buddy and I killed a guy in a boating accident in 1995. We were fish in a lake out the marsh. We decided to go try another area and was coming out of a bayou into an oilfield canal. As we came into the canal we saw a boat with 2 guys in it coming into the bayou right at us. The driver of the other boat was sitting with his back towards the front and fooling with the outboard. We cut our boat to the right and when the other guy yelled at the driver, he panicked and cut their boat to the left hitting our boat as we were coming off plane. Guy sitting on the ice chest was thrown out after the front of our boat hit him. The driver apparently got thrown out also. As I ran to the front of our boat the driver flew out the water and went backwards back into the water. I could tell he was injured bad. I jumped in and grabbed him and we got him in our boat. The other guy was able to get in the boat on his own. I noticed he had a very bad cut on his thigh on his right leg. He said he thought it was from the trolling motor. My buddy started the boat and took off to the landing. Muse and the other guy did CPR on the driver all the way to the landing but I knew he was gone when we got him in the boat. Not long after we got to the landing the ambulance showed but couldn’t do anything for the driver. They took the other guy to the hospital and my buddy and I waited for the Sheriff’s office to show up. We later found out that the driver had got thrown head first into our boat and suffered blunt force trauma to the head and it killed him within a few minutes because he had no water in his lungs. It was truly a bad deal for everyone. I still see him coming out of the water like he did and I’ll never forget the look on his face. It was like he was staring right through me. I went a long time before I could go back to that area. My buddy who owned and was driving the boat was in a bad place for a long time. He sold that boat shortly after and quit fishing for a long time also. Eventually we both got past it but it’s will always be with us. Sorry for the hijack!!