She was on the phone with 911 when the second ferry pulled alongside and directed a spotlight onto the car, as the ferry she had driven off backed up toward her. She initially landed upside down, but her vehicle soon righted itself before starting to sink That's when she decided to back off the ferry and move over to the other lane for the second boat. When a second car stopped behind her without driving on, Raynes began to fear her boat was out of commission. There was no crew on the deck of the ferry as she approached from the Gondola Point side around 9:30 p.m. Six months before that, a Kingston Peninsula woman had to be rescued after she backed her vehicle off a ferry midway across the Kennebecasis River.Īngela Marie Raynes was returning home after an exhausting shift at Costco. The bodies were found in about 24 metres of water that night, and divers brought them to the surface the next day. In September 2020, two men from the Sussex area drowned after their vehicle went off the Belleisle ferry.Īt the time, the RCMP said it was believed that the driver of the truck accelerated midway through the crossing, sending the vehicle forward up the ferry ramp and into the bay just before 1:50 a.m. No one with the Transportation Safety Board responded by publication time. On Tuesday, the RCMP referred all calls to an officer in Sussex, who did not respond by publication time. "It's extremely difficult to manoeuvre around those safety measures," he said.
When a ferry is off its run, signs are erected on the landing, and the ramp on the water side of the ferry is left up, explained Taylor.
Taylor said the ferry involved had been operational the day before but was taken out of service because of the strike by some government workers, including ferry workers who belong to a CUPE local.
This file photo shows both ferries in operation between Gondola Point and the Kingston Peninsula.
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