Today’s news about one of the two main support cables of the Hopuruahine Bridge (on a map) giving way, along the Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk (radio NZ, Stuff, NZ Herald) should be seen as very concerning. The consequence was that four tourists were dropped eight metres into two metres of water below. With a different set of circumstances (flooded river, shallower or no water, victims being incapacitated on the way down or...
Investigation launched into Lake Waikaremoana bridge collapse
An investigation has been launched into the collapse of a Lake Waikaremoana Track bridge which saw a group of tourists plummet 8m into a river last week. A cable on the Hopu Ruahine bridge on the Lake Waikaremoana Track "released" about 1pm on Thursday - causing four French tourists who were on the bridge at the time to fall into the river below. The group survived without major injury. Te Urewera Board chairman Tamati Kruger said it...
Tourists fall 8m as bridge cable fails
Four tourists escaped major injury after they fell 8 metres when a cable on a bridge on the Lake Waikaremoana Track at Te Urewera gave way yesterday. The three women and one man, who the Department of Conservation (DoC) said were all French, plunged into the river below. A DoC spokesperson said one of the cables on the 65m-long Hopu Ruahine bridge "released" at 1pm yesterday. A senior bridge engineer has been sent to the scene...
Lake Waikaremoana bridge breaks, ing trampers plummeting
Four people escaped unharmed after falling eight metres when a cable bridge on a tramping track broke. The four were walking across the 65m-long Hopu Ruahine bridge on the Lake Waikaremoana Track when a cable gave way around 1pm Thursday. The trampers, who were French fell eight metres into about two metres of water, escaping without serious injusry. The bridge did not collapse. A spokesman for the Department of Conservation (DOC) said the...
Search for clues to bridge fall
WORKSAFE NZ and engineers inspecting the Hopuruahine suspension bridge at Lake Waikaremoana expect to have their investigation into the bridge collapse complete within a week. Four French tourists were slightly injured when a cable on the bridge released last Thursday and they toppled from the bridge, falling eight metres into the river. “Our French trampers leave Waikaremoana shaken but thankfully without major injury,” said the...
Tourists' plunge during bridge failure examined
An investigation has been launched into the collapse of a Lake Waikaremoana Track bridge which sent tourists plummeting eight metres into a river. A cable on the Hopu Ruahine bridge on the Lake Waikaremoana Track "released" about 1pm on Thursday, pitching four French tourists into the water. Te Urewera Board chairman Tamati Kruger said that, thankfully, none of the "shaken" trampers had been seriously injured. The had...
