No fault with ferry in fatality; N.S government
Posted Apr 3, 2013 03:53:38 PM.
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The Nova Scotia government says an internal review shows there were no safety problems with the Englishtown
ferry in a fatality last week when a car drove off the vessel into St. Anns Bay.
Transportation Minister Maurice Smith says there are no safety issues with the vessel or with staff procedures.
Police divers recovered the body Tuesday of an 81-year-old man who drove his car off the end of the small cable ferry.
The Mounties say Jerry Hengeveld of Waterville, N.S., was the lone occupant of the car that boarded the ferry at Englishtown on
March 25.
Witnesses say the car failed to stop once it was on the ferry, hitting an elevated ramp at one end and plunging into the bay.
The RCMP say an autopsy is scheduled on Hengeveld’s body and investigators do no suspect foul play, but they are continuing to investigate what happened.
