Accident Database

Report ID#64748

2003-08-15
accident date
Unidentified Boy
victim
9
victim age
Great Miami River
river
n/a
section
n/a
location
n/a
gage
n/a
water level
N/A
river difficulty
Caught in Low Head Dam Hydraulic
cause code(s)
Does not Apply
injury type(s)
One Boat Trip
factors
Private
trip type
Other
boat type
status?
status

Description

There were two more drownings at a dam on the Great Miami River near Dayton, Ohio. The first accident occurred on August 15th and involved a father and his two sons in a canoe. According to the AW’s Doug Sauer, who watched the TV news and sent web postings, they capsized in the backwash of a low-head dam after they tried to recover balls that were caught there. The father and one of his boys survived, but a second 9-year-old son did not.