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Accident Database: Accident #773
| River: | Chagrin |
| Section: | Willoughby |
| Location: | Daniels Park Dam |
| Difficulty: | I |
| Accident Code(s): | No PFD |
| Injury Code(s): | Fatal, Fatal, Fatal, Fatal, Fatal, Fatal, Fatal, Fatal, Fatal, Fatal, Fatal, Fatal |
| Age: | 18 |
| Private/Commercial: | Private |
| Boat Type: | Raft |
| Number of Occupants: | 2 |
| Number in Group: | 2 |
| Number of Victims: | 2 |
| Other Victim Names: | Charlie Trizza, 19 |
| Hazard Codes: | Low Head Dam |
| Summary: | On May 12, 2002, two rafters lost their lives at the Daniels Park Dam in Willoughby, OH. Charlie Trizza, 19, and Chad Schreibman, 18, ran the dam in a raft and drowned. This is the same place where Mark Palmisalmo had drowned in April, 1998. The families filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city fo Willoughby and the state of Ohio in 2004. |
| Link: | http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11641044&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_id=21849&rfi=6 |
| Report Status: | Incomplete |
