GOLDEN — Colorado authorities say a person has died while inner tubing in the Platte River — the state’s third fatal tubing accident in a week.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday that a 43-year-old Castle Rock resident drowned near the Platte River campground.
Authorities say the man had been tubing Saturday afternoon with his fiance and friends when he apparently lost his tube and went into an area near the bank with bushes and tall grass.
A camper saw the man emerge face down. Several people pulled him from the water but attempts to revive him failed.
Golden police say a 48-year-old woman, whose name has not been released, flipped off of her inner tube and went underwater Friday afternoon. She resurfaced downstream and was pulled from the water.
Firefighters and park rangers performed CPR, but the woman died at a hospital.
Meanwhile, The Durango Herald reports 31-year-old Manuel Gallegos, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was taken off of life support Thursday. Gallegos, who was not wearing a life jacket or helmet, was critically injured when he fell out of his inner tube at the Animas River Whitewater Park in southwestern Colorado on Sunday.
His death has been ruled an accident.
