A second boating-related fatality in five days has occurred in Tennessee

For the second time in five days, a boating-related fatality occurred on a Tennessee waterway.

On Saturday, a 10-year-old girl died in a boating accident on the Tennessee River, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

On Wednesday Jordan Matthews, a 34-year-old Hamilton County resident, was killed in a boating accident on Chickamauga Lake northeast of Chattanooga.

TWRA officers and Rhea County sheriff, emergency management and fire department officers responded to a call regarding an unresponsive man who had fallen from an older pontoon boat and was run over by another boat.

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The incident occurred near the Route 60 bridge, just after noon CT.

Matthews, who was not wearing a life jacket, sustained several lacerations and was found unconscious. Passing anglers helped pull Matthews back onto the pontoon boat where they tried to revive him through CPR.

He was transported to the Rhea Medical Center where he was declared dead.

It was the 17th boating-related fatality in Tennessee this year.

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