TWRA Reports Only One Fatality During Holiday Weekend

The TWRA is thanking Mother Nature for a mainly safe Memorial Day Weekend on the lakes and rivers of Tennessee. The cooler rainy weather over the holiday weekend kept many people off the water. There was one fatality on the water over the weekend and that happened in Middle Tennessee. That fatality occurred Saturday afternoon when a 43-year-old male veteran drowned in Percy Priest Lake after entering the water from an anchored vessel. That incident remains under investigation. The TWRA says there were no other serious injury accidents reported from across the state, but there were two property damage incidents, both in the Cumberland Plateau region. TWRA wildlife officers made 14 BUI (boating under the influence) arrests. Just three of those arrests were made in East Tennessee.

The one fatality over the Memorial Day weekend is the 10th fatality this year on Tennessee waters.