Published 4 June 2017
The Traffic Department is investigating a single vehicle accident Saturday morning where a car jumped a curb side walk in Newtown and crashed into a fishing boat on that same side.
Sometime after 10:00 am, a rental car R908 was traveling westerly along the Bay Road in the Newtown area, when in swerved off the road and crashed into a fishing boat and wall on the sea-side of the busy road.
The vessel was grounded on the side of the road at the time of impact.
EMS did respond to the accident although no one at the scene appeared to be injured.
The car was extensively damaged at the front and the rear of the boat received the brunt of the impact.
