Accident Database

Report ID#68029

2008-06-17
accident date
Oscar Stevenson
victim
67
victim age
Arkansas
river
F. Fisherman
section
Pinball Rapid
location
~2800
gage
High
water level
III
river difficulty
Other
cause code(s)
n/a
injury type(s)
n/a
factors
Commercial
trip type
Raft
boat type
status?
status

Description

http://www.krdo.com/global/story.asp?s=8517926 SALIDA – A Virginia man is dead after a rafting accident on the Arkansas River near Buena Vista. Chaffee County Sheriff Tim Walker says 67-year-old Oscar Stevenson III of Eastville, Va., was on a commercial rafting trip Tuesday when his raft overturned at a spot known as Pinball Rapids. Stevenson was thrown into the water, but a raft guide and other rafters pulled him ashore. His rescuers performed CPR on Stevenson until emergency crews arrived, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Walker says Stevenson likely suffered a heart attack and stopped breathing. An autopsy is planned. Buena Vista is about 95 miles southwest of Denver.