Well, this isn't exactly on the river, but going to the river. In the 60's my dad was heading up 101 on the Oregon Coast to do some Steelhead fishing and an Elk jumped off a ten foot enbankment and landed on the passenger side of his Volkswagen bug. A farmer found him unconscious in the field on the other side of the road. The car was totaled but luckily all my dad received was a broken nose. Also the day before my dad had a buddy with him who would have surely been killed as the passenger side took the brunt of the impact.

To think how close I came to not existing.