Man Drowns on Lower Sacramento After Drift Boat Collides with Anderson Bridge
By Tom Chandler on Apr 22, 2008 in News
This sobering bit of news from the Redding Record-Searchlight:
A San Jose man died after he and two companions were thrown from their drift boat and into the Sacramento River after they hit the North Street Bridge in Anderson Monday afternoon.
Construction workers building the new North Street Bridge spotted the three men and were able to pull one of them from the water. Two others were swept down river by the strong current, one clinging to the overturned boat, said sheriff’s Lt. Jerry Shearman.
Daniel Scott McMillan of San Jose was declared dead, and while the story’s not clear as to the cause, it seems a contributing factor might have been the construction at the bridge:
Construction on the new North Street Bridge is well under way. Two 30-foot openings allow boaters to pass between the pilings that will support the new six span bridge, Pat Minturn, Public Works Director, said in November.
This certainly casts the closure of the Lower Sacramento River at the Cypress Street Bridge (also undergoing construction) in an interesting light.
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