Tragic fishing story

[MountainBuck]

I don't have details of this incident yet, but will add any if pertinent. I fished in a Bass Club with the grandfather involved in this incident and can't imagine how it could have happened unless one of the boys pulled the truck out of gear. He was always very safety consious.


Two 8-year-old boys drowned Saturday when a pickup they were in rolled into the Fourche LaFave River in Yell County.
Dalton Davis of Plainview and his cousin Zephaniah Underwood of Owasso, Okla., were pronounced dead at Chambers Memorial Hospital in Danville at 4:55 p.m., said Kathy Gillespie, Yell County’s chief deputy coroner.
The accident happened about 3 p.m. at a boat ramp about three miles south of Plainview, near Nimrod Lake, said Plainview Police Chief Jim McCoy.
The boys had spent the day fishing with their grandfather, he said.
The grandfather was securing a pontoon boat to a trailer on the pickup when the truck began rolling backward with the boys inside, McCoy said.
The pickup sank in about 14 feet of water in a swift current, McCoy said. Several passers-by tried to save the boys, he said.
A Pope County dive team eventually pulled the boys out, and medical workers tried to revive them, McCoy said.

[MountainBuck]

I talked to a family member, who said that The grandfather noticed the boys fighting in the truck as he was winching the boat to the trailer. One of the boys knocked the truck out of gear and it rolled back down the steep ramp with pk. brake on. The ramp was located in the river and water was extremely swift. The driver's side window was down when the truck rolled into the water and the grandfather tryed to get them out of the window. As the water started rushing in the window, the boys rolled up the window which sealed them in. The truck sank in 14 ft. of water. There were several bystanders on the bank who dove in the water to try to rescue the boys, but the water was to swift and cold. Maybe we can all learn a lesson and pass it on from this sad accident.