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Death toll rises to six in boat collision in Sydney
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 02 - 05 - 2008


The death toll from a collision
in Sydney's famous harbor between a runabout laden with
young joyriders and a fishing boat has risen to six, AP quoted
officials as saying Friday.
The U.S. Consulate named one of the victims as 25-year-old
Jessica Savanna Holloway. It did not provide further
details, though local media reported that Holloway is from
Texas and was working as a youth worker in Australia.
Four others were killed in the collision shortly before 3
a.m. Thursday, and another died later in a hospital. Eight
others were injured. Apart from Holloway, all were
Australians.
Dr. Ray Raper, head of intensive care at the Royal North
Shore Hospital where the injured were treated, told
reporters Friday the sixth victim died from severe head
injuries he suffered in the collision.
All of the dead and injured were aboard the seven-meter
(23-foot) half-cabin cruiser, which was licensed to carry
eight people but had 14 aboard when the crash occurred.
They were aged in their late teens and early 30s.
Witness and police descriptions indicated the group took
the boat out for a late-night tour of the harbor after
drinking at a hotel in the harborside suburb of Balmain.
Police declined to speculate about the cause of the
collision, but said alcohol, speed, and lighting would be
investigated, as well as whether the victims were wearing
lifejackets.
The crash occurred near Bradley's Head in a favored
sightseeing area of the harbor, home to Sydney Opera House
and Sydney Harbor Bridge landmarks. Once a bustling
commercial port, the harbor is now dominated by pleasure
craft, passenger ferries and cruise ships.
A small commercial fishing fleet operates from the harbor,
and the 12.5-meter (41-foot) trawler that struck the
cruiser was heading out to sea.
The cruiser was owned by a boat repair company whose
officials said Friday permission for its use had not been
given Thursday night. Sydney Ship Repair and Engineering
said in a statement a former contractor for the company was
among the injured, and may have taken the boat for a
joyride.
Damage to the rear of the cruiser prompted early
speculation Thursday that it was hit from behind. But
Senior Inspector Glenn Finniss said later Thursday the
cruiser appeared to have been hit near the center of one
side, and was damaged along that side and at the back.
Police and witness descriptions of the two boats'
activities before the crash suggest the two vessels were
heading toward each other, with the fishing vessel heading
away from downtown and the cruiser heading toward it.
The most recent fatal crash in Sydney Harbor was in March
last year, when a passenger ferry plowed into a pleasure
boat under the harbor bridge, killing four people. The most
notorious was in 1927, when a mail steamer collided with a
ferry, sinking the ferry and killing 40 people.


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