Accident Database

Report ID#69549

2002-09-14
accident date
Unidentified Boy, 5
victim
5
victim age
Skykomish
river
3 - Big Eddy to Monroe
section
n/a
location
n/a
gage
Low
water level
II
river difficulty
Swim into Strainer
cause code(s)
Does not Apply
injury type(s)
One Boat Trip
factors
Private
trip type
Other
boat type
status?
status

Description

A 5 year-old boy drowned in a Class II section of Washington’s Skykomish River on September 14th. The boy was with his parents and two brothers aged 4 and 7. Everyone was wearing a life vest. Their canoe hit a logjam just downstream of the Lewis Street boat ramp in Monroe. Two boys and their mother were out of the water by the time firefighters arrived. The father was caught in the logjam with the 5 year old, who was dead on arrival at a local hospital.