INVESTIGATING A DROWNING ON THE WHITE WATER RIVER THIS EVENING. GOOD EVENING. ONE, I’M CURTIS FULLER AND I’M MOLLIE LAIR A WOMAN DIED AERFT HER KAYAK OVERTURNED AND SHE COULD NOT BE SAVED WLWT NEWS 5 DR. CHAESRL SPENT THE DAY TALKING TO FOLKS ON THE RIVER WHO SAY THESE TRAGIC INCIDENTS HAPPENED FAR TOO OFTEN. I’M AT GREEN ACRES. WE’RE LIKE, MAYBE LIKE A MILE OR TWO DOWN AND WE HAVE SOMEONE THAT HAS BEEN DROWNING AND IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE THEY’RE RESPONSIVE THE CALLS TO DISPATCH BEGAN AT 12 NOON A KAYAKER IN THE WATERS OF THE WHITEWATER RIVER THE KAYAKS OVER AND SHE JUST COULDN’T STAY UP IN WATER. SHE HAD A LIFE JACKET ON BUT SHE THAT WOMAN ACCORDING TO HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF’SFF OICIALS 60 YEAR OLD BOBBY EGAN PRONOUNCED DEAD ON THE SCENE WLEHI THE INVESTIGATION REMAINS ONGOING OPERATIONS RESUMED TODAY AT ACRES THE MDYUD WATERS OF THE WHITEWATER RIVER COOL ON A HOT LYJU DAY RUSHING AND DEADLY IT’S TRICKY MAN. YOU GOTTA KNOW IT. YOU CAN’T JUST COME DOWN AND YOU’D BEOU YR FIRST TIME YOU JUST THINK YOU CAN DO WHATEVER CRAIG RICE KNOWS THISIV RER. HE’S BOATING AND FISHED HERE OVER 20 YEARS. HE KNOWS IT’S DANGEROUS YOU CAN HIT. DIDN’T HE HIT A ROCK FLIP A CANOE AND CANOESRE A PRETTY EASY TO TIP AND WHILE THEY DIDN’T WANT TO COMMENT ON CAMERA THE OPERATORS OF GREEN ACRES COULD NEW DID ACKNOWLEDGE THE WOMAN. WAS PART OF A PARTY THAT PUT IN HERE AT THIS CANOE LIVERY THEY DESCBRI THE CONDITIONS IS NORMAL. THEY SAY THEY'R’ WAITING FROM FURTHER INFORMATION GREENACRES SWITCHED TO ALLN A KAYAK OPERATION CITING THE INSTABILITY OF CANOES FOR INEXPERIENCED RENTERS. CRAIG SAYS THE RIVER HAS TO BE RESPECTED. YOU SEE THE CURRENT RIGHT NOW IN THE SHALLOW STUFF BUT UP THERE IN THAT CORNER LOOKS CALM DON’T THERE’S UNDERCURRENT AND THAT THAT’S WHAT GETS A LOT OF PEOPLE THOUSANDS WILL TAKE THIS EIGHT MILE TREK EVERY YREA ACCORDING TO GREEN ACRES MARK NOW WITH AN OMINOUS WARNING. ARE THEY BREATHING? I’M ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER AND I DON’T THINK THAT THEY ARE. LIKE SHE IS LIMP. I WISH I COULD HAVE TOLD HER SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW PREVENT THAT OR TOLD PEOPLE THAT
Woman drowns in Whitewater River while kayaking
Bystanders and emergency personnel tried to help save the victim
Updated: 6:14 PM EDT Jul 4, 2021
A woman has died from drowning after her kayak overturned in the Whitewater River on Saturday, July 3, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff's department.Deputies went to the 9100 block of Lawrenceburg Road at about 12:30pm for reports of an overturned kayak.According to officials, fire personnel sent a boat down the river and fellow paddlers performed CPR until emergency responders were on scene. The woman operating the kayak has been identified as 60 year-old Bobbie Egan.Departments from Harrison, Whitewater, Miami, and Colerain Township Fire responded, as well as a crew from Bright, Indiana.
A woman has died from drowning after her kayak overturned in the Whitewater River on Saturday, July 3, according to the Hamilton County Sheriff's department.
Deputies went to the 9100 block of Lawrenceburg Road at about 12:30pm for reports of an overturned kayak.
According to officials, fire personnel sent a boat down the river and fellow paddlers performed CPR until emergency responders were on scene.
The woman operating the kayak has been identified as 60 year-old Bobbie Egan.
Departments from Harrison, Whitewater, Miami, and Colerain Township Fire responded, as well as a crew from Bright, Indiana.
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