boatone
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From Twitter: Fire brigade and police now on the upside down boat case at @RomneyWeir with their sirens blazing
Canal Boat incident at Windsor
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boatone
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Now reported by RomneyWeir as being 24 foot launch with no-one on board.
Pimpernello
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From Windsor Observer website.
Fire engines from Slough, Windsor and Langley rushed to Ham Island, in Old Windsor, at around 3.50pm this afternoon after a report of a runaway, cruiser-style motorboat coming loose from its moorings and careering down the Thames on its stern side.
The fire service - which had also drafted in a water rescue unit from Reading - finally managed to catch up with the boat near the Bells of Ouzeley pub, in Straight Road, and unsuccessfully attempted to stop the boat at the Old Windsor Lock.
Eyewitness Old Windsor ward councillor Lynne Jones said: “We saw two fire engines chasing the boat along the river. They went to Old Windsor Lock and then went back off again down towards Egham.”
The boat eventually came to a halt at the Bell Lock Weir near the Runnymede Hotel in Egham by which point it was upside down.
Police officers were also on scene to assist and nobody is believed to have been on the boat during the incident.
After the boat had come to rest, the scene was handed over to the Environment Agency.
- See more at: http://www.windsorobserver.co.uk/ne...e-thames-at-old-windsor/#sthash.PpCO6YJQ.dpuf
Fire engines from Slough, Windsor and Langley rushed to Ham Island, in Old Windsor, at around 3.50pm this afternoon after a report of a runaway, cruiser-style motorboat coming loose from its moorings and careering down the Thames on its stern side.
The fire service - which had also drafted in a water rescue unit from Reading - finally managed to catch up with the boat near the Bells of Ouzeley pub, in Straight Road, and unsuccessfully attempted to stop the boat at the Old Windsor Lock.
Eyewitness Old Windsor ward councillor Lynne Jones said: “We saw two fire engines chasing the boat along the river. They went to Old Windsor Lock and then went back off again down towards Egham.”
The boat eventually came to a halt at the Bell Lock Weir near the Runnymede Hotel in Egham by which point it was upside down.
Police officers were also on scene to assist and nobody is believed to have been on the boat during the incident.
After the boat had come to rest, the scene was handed over to the Environment Agency.
- See more at: http://www.windsorobserver.co.uk/ne...e-thames-at-old-windsor/#sthash.PpCO6YJQ.dpuf
teddington_lock
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'Bell Lock Weir' eh ?
'Careering' down the Thames on its 'stern side' ( after coming loose from it's moorings ) ?
Lol
'Careering' down the Thames on its 'stern side' ( after coming loose from it's moorings ) ?
Lol
Pimpernello
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Journalism at its finest!!!
Wavey
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If I'd broken free and found myself careering down the river I'd be a bit on the stern side too 