Man drowns in dinghy accident on Lehigh – Times News Online

Published on May 25, 2024 5:16 pm

A man has died in a dinghy accident on the Lehigh River near Lehighton.

On Saturday at around 11:15 a.m. a call came in that a man was in distress on the river near the bridge trestle.

The Lehighton Fire Department dive team launched a boat upriver and began searching for the victim.

A short time later, a call came in from several people who were about a mile downstream from a person in the river in the area of ​​the Lehighton Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Lehighton divers found the victim and called the Carbon County Coroner.

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