FATAL ACCIDENT AT VARNEY'S LOCK

摘要

A woman was pronounced dead at the scene after falling from a hireboat near CrOpredy on the southern Oxford Canal.rnThe woman, in her late 40s, was on a boat hired from the Rugby area with her husband and two children.rnA spokesman for the Association of Pleasure Craft Operators expressed APCO's "deepest sympathies" to the woman's family, but stressed how popular hireboating is: "Half a million days are safely spent on board inland boats without incident which makes this tragic accident all the more unusual." He added that APCO would take on board any lessons to be learned when the causes are known.