Accident Database

Report ID#64810

2010-07-21
accident date
Janet Ann Keck
victim
67
victim age
Guadalupe
river
First Crossing to Common St.
section
Below Gruene Bridge
location
~400 cfs
gage
Low
water level
II
river difficulty
PFD Not Worn or Present
cause code(s)
Does not Apply
injury type(s)
Other
factors
Private
trip type
Other
boat type
status?
status

Description

Tuber, 67, drowns near Gruene Bridge Web Posted: 07/22/2010 4:30 CDT A 67-year-old Michigan woman tubing with family Wednesday afternoon on the Guadalupe River fell off an inner tube and drowned, New Braunfels police said. The woman, Janet Ann Keck, 67, of Temperance, Michigan, was tubing near the 1000 block of Gruene Road shortly after noon when she went over rapids and fell off her tube, said New Braunfels police Lt. Mike Penshorn. Witnesses said Keck was floating just downstream from the Gruene Bridge when she slipped under. Police said family members pulled her from the water and began administering CPR. Keck was taken to Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in New Braunfels, where she was pronounced dead.