Accident Database

Report ID#65486

2008-07-19
accident date
Unknown Elderly Man
victim
86
victim age
Rogue
river
1. Lost Creek Reservoir to Gold Ray Dam
section
Near Shady Cove
location
n/a
gage
n/a
water level
N/A
river difficulty
PFD Not Worn or Present
cause code(s)
Does not Apply
injury type(s)
Other
factors
Private
trip type
Raft
boat type
status?
status

Description

07/19/2008 Associated Press An 86-year-old man drowned while rafting on the Rogue River near Shady Cove. Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters says the man fell into the river about 3:30 p.m. He was not immediately identified. “At this point we don’t know if he stood up in the raft or if he fell out some other way,” Winters said. Winters says the man was not wearing a life jacket. Passers-by heard the man’s wife screaming for help. He was pulled from the river by deputies with the Jackson County sheriff’s marine unit.