3:03 pm | Jul 01, 2009
Register: Huntington Harbour bridge accidents rare in 5 m.p.h. speed limit area
Following last weekend’s fatal boating accident at the Gilbert Drive bridge in Huntington Harbour, the Register interviews Harbor Patrol officials about the safety of the low-slung bridges in the area: “Most types of accidents are more along the lines of a boat colliding into another or caught on fire,” Sgt. John Hollenbeck of the county’s Harbor Patrol told the Register. “Accidents like what happened the other day are extremely rare.”
Officials are still investigating alcohol’s roll in the accident, the Register said.
Read more, see a map and a slideshow with pictures from the accident area at ocregister.com.
Above: A boater passes under the Gilbert Drive bridge. Photo by Jebb Harris, used with permission from The Orange County Register.
Previously at SBD: Operation Dry Water: increased Coast Guard presence, crackdown on drinking boaters
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