Death on The Creeper Trail
http://www.wcyb.tv/newsread.asp?newsid=8212
A MAN IS DEAD AFTER FALLING FROM A CLIFF INTO A CREEK ALONG THE CREEPER TRAIL.
IT HAPPENED SHORTLY BEFORE FOUR SUNDAY AFTERNOON JUST OUTSIDE OF DAMASCUS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY VIRGINIA.
INVESTIGATORS SAY FOUR MEN WERE NEAR THE CREEK BANK WHEN ONE OF THE MEN CLIMBED ONTO A LEDGE.
THEY SAY 37-YEAR-OLD JEFFREY DICKENS OF MOUNTAIN CITY, TENNESSEE SLIPPED OR JUMPED INTO THE WATER BUT WAS PULLED UNDER.
INVESTIGATORS SAY THIS AREA OF WHITE TOP LAUREL IS FAIRLY DEEP.
DICKENS WAS PULLED OUT BY A PASSER-BY WHO DOVE INTO THE WATER. THE MAN`S FRIENDS THREW A ROCK TO MARK THE SPOT THEY LAST SAW HIM. THEY ATTEMPTED C-P-R AT THE SCENE BUT THE MAN DIED.
THE GROUP HAD BEEN CAMPING A SHORT DISTANCE OFF THE TRAIL.
AUTHORITIES SAY THE DROWNING APPEARS TO BE ACCIDENTAL BUT DICKENS BODY WILL STILL BE SENT FOR AN AUTOPSY.
Its not on a part of the trail I walk on, its further up, but I have seen the river, and I know how high up the trail is in that area from the river that I cant help but wonder what this man was doing/thinking.
A MAN IS DEAD AFTER FALLING FROM A CLIFF INTO A CREEK ALONG THE CREEPER TRAIL.
IT HAPPENED SHORTLY BEFORE FOUR SUNDAY AFTERNOON JUST OUTSIDE OF DAMASCUS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY VIRGINIA.
INVESTIGATORS SAY FOUR MEN WERE NEAR THE CREEK BANK WHEN ONE OF THE MEN CLIMBED ONTO A LEDGE.
THEY SAY 37-YEAR-OLD JEFFREY DICKENS OF MOUNTAIN CITY, TENNESSEE SLIPPED OR JUMPED INTO THE WATER BUT WAS PULLED UNDER.
INVESTIGATORS SAY THIS AREA OF WHITE TOP LAUREL IS FAIRLY DEEP.
DICKENS WAS PULLED OUT BY A PASSER-BY WHO DOVE INTO THE WATER. THE MAN`S FRIENDS THREW A ROCK TO MARK THE SPOT THEY LAST SAW HIM. THEY ATTEMPTED C-P-R AT THE SCENE BUT THE MAN DIED.
THE GROUP HAD BEEN CAMPING A SHORT DISTANCE OFF THE TRAIL.
AUTHORITIES SAY THE DROWNING APPEARS TO BE ACCIDENTAL BUT DICKENS BODY WILL STILL BE SENT FOR AN AUTOPSY.
Its not on a part of the trail I walk on, its further up, but I have seen the river, and I know how high up the trail is in that area from the river that I cant help but wonder what this man was doing/thinking.