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Taieri Mouth boat tragedy: Questions over whether camera could have saved toddler
5 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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A wreath lies amid the vines lining Taieri Mouth yesterday as the community mourns the death of a young girl killed in a boating accident at the bar on Saturday. Photo / Peter McIntosh
A wreath lies amid the vines lining Taieri Mouth yesterday as the community mourns the death of a young girl killed in a boating accident at the bar on Saturday. Photo / Peter McIntosh
Otago Daily Times
By: John Lewis
A camera which aims to show boaties a safe passage over the Taieri Mouth bar has been installed but not yet activated, leaving some to question whether it could have saved a toddler who died in a fatal boating accident at the weekend.
John Lewis
One of the rescuers at the centre of a fatal Taieri Mouth boating accident has recounted the helplessness he felt when he saw a seemingly lifeless toddler pulled from beneath the overturned boat.
Emergency services carry a patient following a boat capsize in Taieri Mouth on Saturday.
Photo: Otago Daily Times / Peter McIntosh
Taieri Mouth resident Lawrence Clark raced to the scene on his jet-ski following a phone call from a neighbour.
By the time he arrived, four of the family members had already been helped ashore by surfers, but one was still missing. I could see three surfers on surfboards back at the boat.