Boat accident

[JestersHK]

My daughter said there was a fatal accident on NFOW River.   Hope all our forum members are safe

[BilletHead]

12 minutes ago, JestersHK said:

My daughter said there was a fatal accident on NFOW River.   Hope all our forum members are safe

              One body recovered last I heard of. Another missing and one survivor. Happened at 3:30 am. 

[jdmidwest]

I almost drove to Tecumseh this weekend with the wife to try for white bass run on the area.  Weather kept me here.  That's as close as I came to it.

[fshndoug]

3:30 am good grief

[fishinwrench]

13 hours ago, fshndoug said:

3:30 am good grief

Methamphetamine !   

[tjm]

Not being a boater, the reports I read confused me, one said that the boat was "drifting downstream" at the time of accident and another said it  was "unclear who was the driver" at the time of accident. So, if they were drifting, would that not mean there was no one "driving"? and if drifting would the boat build up enough speed that impact would eject the people?

13 hours ago, fshndoug said:

3:30 am good grief

Is that a bad time  to fish there or they were just joy riding?

[Deadstream]

I will guess they hit a strainer/sweeper and the drugs didn't work.  But just a guess.   Been on many rivers late at night, easy to get in trouble sober or not.

[jdmidwest]

This was on the water patrol website

 

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Incident Report Details

 

Incident Information

Investigated By	Incident#	Date	Time	County	Incident Type	Location	Lake/River	Troop
CPL. J. R. ROBERTS (1295)	220147456	03/25/2022	3:30AM	OZARK	COLLISION WITH FIXED OBJECT	NORTH FORK RIVER, ONE MILE WEST OF TECUMSEH	NORTH FORK OF THE WHITE RIVER	G

Boat Information

Boat. #	Boat Description	Damage	Disposition	Driver Name	Driver Gender	Driver Age	Safety Device	Driver City/State	Driver Insurance	Boat Direction
1	1994 LANDAU JON BOAT	TOTAL	REMOVED BY DUKE'S TOWING OF CAULFIELD	NO DRIVER, NO DRIVER	UNKNOWN	UNK	UNKNOWN	N/A	NONE	WESTBOUND

Injury Information

Boat. #	Name	Gender	Age	Injury Type	Safety Device	City/State	Involvement	Disposition
1	DUNLAP, MICHAEL L	MALE	32	FATAL	NO	NORWOOD, MO	OCCUPANT	TRANSPORTED TO CLINKINGBEARD FUNERAL HOME IN GAINESVILLE
1	NEWTON, SHANNON S	MALE	38	NONE	NO	DORA, MO	OCCUPANT	SWAM SAFELY TO SHORE
1	SMITH, ROBERT D	MALE	60	FATAL	NO	DRURY, MO	OCCUPANT	TRANSPORTED TO CLINKINGBEARD FUNERAL HOME IN GAINESVILLE

Misc. Information

FATAL BOATING ACCIDENT - NEXT OF KIN NOTIFIED - OCCURRED AS VESSEL #1 DRIFTED DOWN STREAM, IMPACTED A LOG EXTENDING FROM THE BANK INTO THE RIVER AND OVERTURNED. OCCUPANTS WERE EJECTED INTO THE WATER AND THE BOAT SANK. OCCUPANT #1 WAS PRONOUNCED AT 1800 HOURS ON 3/25/2022 AND OCCUPANT #2 WAS PRONOUNCED AT 1205 ON 3/26/2022 BY OZARK COUNTY CORONER GENE BRITT AT THE SCENE. ASSISTED BY MSGT. B. D. FOSTER (1303), SGT. C. W. HOFF (1302), CPL. L. B. MONAHAN (1304), CPL. D. A. BARTLETT (1284), CPL. N. J. BRITT (368), CPL. D. J. JOHNSON (439), TPR. C. P. CHATMAN (657), TPR. C. W. TIERNEY (1386) AND CPL. J. M. HEIMSOTH (1270).

[JestersHK]

Thanks for posting John, that sounds awful. Been out many of nights till then... 

I should prolly start wearing a life vest when I'm in boats in the dark... especially in moving water

[fishinwrench]

As far as rivers with a gradient like the NFOW has...... Nobody has any business being on them after dark unless they know it like the back of their hand. 

Ever seen the movie, Bird Box ?