By Lea Kahn. Staff Writer
A 42-year-old man whose canoe overturned, dumping himself and his family in the Delaware & Raritan Canal Saturday afternoon, was found unharmed about a mile away in the canal, according to the Princeton Police Department.
Police were called at 5:06 p.m. Saturday for a report of an overturned canoe in the Delaware & Raritan Canal on Alexander Road, near Turning Basin Park. Officers from the Princeton and West Windsor police departments responded, along with the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad’s water rescue unit.
Police met with the victim’s 40-year-old wife, who told them that the canoe containing herself, her husband and their small child had overturned in the canal. The woman and the child were able to get into a friend’s nearby canoe and paddle safely to shore, police said.
The man managed to upright his overturned canoe and got back in, but he lost his way paddling back to Turning Basin Park, police said. West Windsor Township police found him about a mile away from Turning Basin Park, unharmed.
The man and his wife and child were uninjured and refused medical treatment at the scene, police said.
