| # | Date | State | City | County | Age | Sex | Vehicle Related | Circumstance | |||||
| 1 | 1/18/2012 | OR | Albany | Linn | 18 | F | Yes | A car carrying a family of four was swept from a parking lot into Periwinkle Creek. The father and one son were rescued, but the mother and 20-month old child drowned. | |||||
| 2 | 1/18/2012 | OR | Albany | Linn | 1 | M | Yes | " | |||||
| 3 | 3/20/2012 | TX | Fedor | Lee | 45 | F | Yes | Vehicle swept away while crossing West Yegua Creek. | |||||
| 4 | 3/21/2012 | TX | Bridge City | Orange | 75 | M | Yes | A car was found in a ditch in Orange near the Lake Cypress-Mauriceville High School the next day. The driver had driven into the ditch after the rain had stopped during the night and drowned. | |||||
| 5 | 3/21/2012 | AR | Little Rock | Pulaski | 46 | F | Victim was found in Rock Creek near the low-water bridge on the evening of the 21st. She had apparently been in the water since earlier in the day. The circumstances of how she ended up in the creek were unknown, but she had apparently been on foot. The state medical examiner ruled that drowning was the cause of death. | ||||||
| 6 | 3/24/2012 | AR | French | Fulton | 4 | M | Victim was helping clean up flood damage along the South Fork of the Spring River. According to news reports, a group of older boys left the clean-up site to return to their camping area. Sometime thereafter, the younger boy asked if he could catch up with the other boys. At some point, the boy ended up drowning in the river, which was described as high and rolling. His body was recovered on the 28th. | ||||||
| 7 | 3/24/2012 | VA | Buckingham | Buckingham | 61 | F | Yes | Victim was found deceased inside a pickup truck several days after she was reported missing. The truck was found on its side and wedged against a tree, about 300 yards from a dirt driveway that crossed Grease Creek. The sheriff's office said a preliminary investigation indicated that flood waters disabled the truck and carried it downstream when the driver tried to drive across the flooded low-water crossing. | |||||
| 8 | 4/29/2012 | KS | Independence | Montgomery | 43 | F | Yes | Truck hydroplaned into the flooded Coal Creek during a night of heavy rain. | |||||
| 9 | 5/5/2012 | OH | Nelsonville | Athens | 74 | F | A couple decided to stop their vehicle and wait out some high water. The vehicle became surrounded by rising water, forcing the passengers to make an attempt to walk to nearby higher ground. The wife was swept away and drowned, her body was found about a half mile downstream. The husband was helped to safety by neighbors using a garden hose. | ||||||
| 10 | 5/6/2012 | SD | Madison | Lake | 29 | M | Victim drowned when attempting to cross the flooded creek. | ||||||
| 11 | 5/6/2012 | PR | Utuado | Utuado | 73 | M | Fisherman was swept away by a rapid surge of water in the Jayuya River. | ||||||
| 12 | 6/27/2012 | FL | Elfers | Pasco | 46 | M | Body washed up in a flooded area along the Anclote River. Man drowned, but cardiovascular issues were an additional factor. | ||||||
| 13 | 7/13/2012 | AZ | Lake Havasu City | Yuma | 38 | M | Yes | Victim drowned when his car was swept down a wash. | |||||
| 14 | 7/14/2012 | AZ | Wickenburg | Maricopa | 65 | M | Yes | Victim died as he attempted to drive across the Hassayampa wash near Wickenburg. The swiftly flowing water carried his vehicle about one quarter of a mile downstream and into some brush, causing him to drown. | |||||
| 15 | 7/29/2012 | AZ | San Tan Valley | Pinal | 2 | M | Victim died after he was swept down a flooded wash that ran behind his San Tan Valley home. A citizen on an ATV found the child and brought him to emergency crews, who performed CPR on the boy before taking him to Banner Ironwood Hospital. He died later that evening. | ||||||
| 16 | 8/1/2012 | UT | La Verken | Washington | 2 | F | Victim was noticed missing from her home in the city of La Verkin, which was close to the creek. The girl passed away when she drowned in the Creek, and her body was found a couple hours after she had been reported missing. | ||||||
| 17 | 8/18/2012 | TX | Dallas | Dallas | 38 | M | Fisherman ignored warnings and was seen trying to cross White Rock Creek when he fell into the water, floated downstream and disappeared | ||||||
| 18 | 8/18/2012 | TX | Fort Worth | Tarrant | 33 | M | Victim drowned in a swift moving creek near Trammel Davis Road and South Norwood Drive in Fort Worth. The man stepped into the creek to cool off and was swept off his feet. | ||||||
| 19 | 8/22/2012 | NV | Henderson | Clark | 17 | M | Victim died when he fell into the Pittman Wash and was swept downstream. | ||||||
| 20 | 9/7/2012 | AZ | Tuscon | Pima | 52 | F | Yes | Runoff from the Sierrita Mountains reached the west side of Tucson many hours after rain ended, causing Brawley Wash to overflow its banks. During the overnight hours, five vehicles drove into the flood waters and became stranded along Manville Road just west of Sandario Road. Around 2 am, one man escaped his vehicle before it was washed downstream only to be swept several yards away himself. He suffered a leg injury. His vehicle was found 200 yards downstream, upside down. The man's wife was found in the vehicle, drowned. | |||||
| 21 | 9/11/2012 | NV | Las Vegas | Clark | 38 | M | Man was working at Desert Rose Golf Course doing landscaping. Found backhoe tractor that he was using stuck in the mud. | ||||||
| 22 | 9/15/2012 | PR | Guayanilla | Guayanilla | ? | M | Two young men were swept away by a sharp rise in the Guayanilla river in Barrio Jaguapasto. | ||||||
| 23 | 9/15/2012 | PR | Guayanilla | Guayanilla | ? | M | " | ||||||
| 24 | 9/24/2012 | AK | Susistna River | Susistna Valley | 51 | M | Man presumably drowned after being stranded with a group of hunters in a remote area near off the Denali Highway near Butte Creek. | ||||||
| 25 | 9/30/2012 | TX | Chireno | Nacogdoches | 35 | F | Yes | A couple driving in a car hydroplaned and landed in a flooded creek on FM95, 3 miles south of Chireno, Texas. While abandoning the flooded car, the female passenger was swept away by the waters and drowned. | |||||
| 26 | 10/13/2012 | OK | Tulsa | Tulsa | 14 | M | AST identified the hunter as 51-year-old Bart Barnes, of Wasilla, Tuesday morning, and said he tried to cross high water on an ATV and had been swept downstream and disappeared. | ||||||
| 27 | 10/26/2012 | PR | Juana Diaz | Juana Diaz | 51 | M | Outer bands of Hurricane Sandy, one person was swept away by flooding of Rio Jacaguas. | ||||||
| 28 | 11/30/2012 | CA | Soquel | Santa Cruz | 47 | M | Victim drowned in the waters of Soquel Creek in Capitola during a heavy rainstorm that produced minor flooding of the creek. He drowned in a section of the creek in Perry Park at the rear of a grocery store on 809 Bay Avenue in Capitola. |