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Ted's NZ Herald News Report - Cliff Death: Huaband's Grief - Family Demand Answers After Rockfall Tragedy...
Continuing on from last year's Project... Ted's New Zealand Herald News Reports
Monday July 4th 2011
Ted and I were SHOCKED to read this tragic news in last Mondays Herald...
The freak accident and untimely death on Saturday July 2nd of this poor Lady Inna Rudyy-Collie...
Who was struck on the head by falling rocks while walking her dogs along Rothesay Bay Beach.
Ted, my Shadow and I often frequent this spot in our lunch break...
It is one of our favourite spots to take photos along this wonderful coastline.
Churchill Reserve lies directly above and it is quite a sheer drop to the beach below.
On Friday July 1st @ 9pm Auckland was jolted by a small Earthquake of Magnitude 2.9...
There has been no 'confirmed' connection between the quake and the falling rocks...
It does make one ponder though... about the frailties and forces of Nature and it's consequences...
FAMILY DEMAND ANSWERS AFTER ROCKFALL TRAGEDY...
The first sign for Inna Rudyy-Collie's family that something was wrong came when one of her dogs arrived home from a beach walk without her. Her husband, Stephen Collie, found their Yorkshire terrier Saska at their Murrays Bay home - but Inna, 44, was nowhere to be seen. He hoped it simply meant the dog had run off without his wife of nine years and that she would still be on nearby Rothesay Bay beach with their other dog, Max. But Mrs Rudyy-Collie had been struck by rocks that fell 50m from the cliff overlooking the path of her beach walk and died almost instantly from head injuries.
Saturday's tragedy has left the grieving family seeking answers, and prompted renewed calls for vigilance near the cliffs. Yesterday, additional signs warning of the danger were placed near the walking track, about 300m south of Rothesay Bay beach. Mr Collie told the Herald yesterday he believed that if his wife had been lying injured, Saska wouldn't have left her side. "It sounds silly, but it was trying to tell us something."
Mr Collie, 62, and his 19-year-old stepson, Andrew, split up to look for Inna. Mr Collie went to the beach, 500m from their home and her favourite walking track. As he got there, he saw emergency service personnel and others huddled around an object. He asked a firefighter if someone had been injured. "He said it was more serious than that, and there had been a fatality." Fearing the worst, he spoke to a detective, who said the dead person was a woman. "He asked me what she had been wearing and I said I didn't know because I'd gone to work before she was up." The officer asked him if his wife had a pink dog lead. She had. He showed Mr Collie the cellphone found with the body, and that confirmed his fears. "I rang [the phone]. I already knew there had been a fatality and I knew it was her phone." Her cellphone began ringing in the police officer's hand.
ROCK FALL DEATH... DANGER ALWAYS EXISTS...
Inna Rudyy-Collie, 44, died after being struck by falling rocks while walking her two dogs on Rothesay Bay beach on Saturday. Auckland Council checked drainage at 40 clifftop properties and asked for reports on the stability of the area in the wake of her death. A Tonkin and Taylor geotechnical report released today said rockfall danger had "always existed" in the area around Rothesay Bay. It found no evidence to suggest erosion caused by water discharged from stormwater drains in the cliffs had caused the fatal fall.
Weak rock was widespread throughout the East Coast Bays and measures to shield the public from danger along its seaside cliffs would be difficult to implement, it said. "The recent accident is indeed tragic and to our knowledge is the first known fatality of its type in Auckland. The coastline is used by people at mid to low tide, and the measures required to secure the public from injury from rockfall right up to the foot of the cliff would be extensive, expensive and difficult to construct."
Ted's NZ Herald News Report - Cliff Death: Huaband's Grief - Family Demand Answers After Rockfall Tragedy...
Continuing on from last year's Project... Ted's New Zealand Herald News Reports
Monday July 4th 2011
Ted and I were SHOCKED to read this tragic news in last Mondays Herald...
The freak accident and untimely death on Saturday July 2nd of this poor Lady Inna Rudyy-Collie...
Who was struck on the head by falling rocks while walking her dogs along Rothesay Bay Beach.
Ted, my Shadow and I often frequent this spot in our lunch break...
It is one of our favourite spots to take photos along this wonderful coastline.
Churchill Reserve lies directly above and it is quite a sheer drop to the beach below.
On Friday July 1st @ 9pm Auckland was jolted by a small Earthquake of Magnitude 2.9...
There has been no 'confirmed' connection between the quake and the falling rocks...
It does make one ponder though... about the frailties and forces of Nature and it's consequences...
FAMILY DEMAND ANSWERS AFTER ROCKFALL TRAGEDY...
The first sign for Inna Rudyy-Collie's family that something was wrong came when one of her dogs arrived home from a beach walk without her. Her husband, Stephen Collie, found their Yorkshire terrier Saska at their Murrays Bay home - but Inna, 44, was nowhere to be seen. He hoped it simply meant the dog had run off without his wife of nine years and that she would still be on nearby Rothesay Bay beach with their other dog, Max. But Mrs Rudyy-Collie had been struck by rocks that fell 50m from the cliff overlooking the path of her beach walk and died almost instantly from head injuries.
Saturday's tragedy has left the grieving family seeking answers, and prompted renewed calls for vigilance near the cliffs. Yesterday, additional signs warning of the danger were placed near the walking track, about 300m south of Rothesay Bay beach. Mr Collie told the Herald yesterday he believed that if his wife had been lying injured, Saska wouldn't have left her side. "It sounds silly, but it was trying to tell us something."
Mr Collie, 62, and his 19-year-old stepson, Andrew, split up to look for Inna. Mr Collie went to the beach, 500m from their home and her favourite walking track. As he got there, he saw emergency service personnel and others huddled around an object. He asked a firefighter if someone had been injured. "He said it was more serious than that, and there had been a fatality." Fearing the worst, he spoke to a detective, who said the dead person was a woman. "He asked me what she had been wearing and I said I didn't know because I'd gone to work before she was up." The officer asked him if his wife had a pink dog lead. She had. He showed Mr Collie the cellphone found with the body, and that confirmed his fears. "I rang [the phone]. I already knew there had been a fatality and I knew it was her phone." Her cellphone began ringing in the police officer's hand.
ROCK FALL DEATH... DANGER ALWAYS EXISTS...
Inna Rudyy-Collie, 44, died after being struck by falling rocks while walking her two dogs on Rothesay Bay beach on Saturday. Auckland Council checked drainage at 40 clifftop properties and asked for reports on the stability of the area in the wake of her death. A Tonkin and Taylor geotechnical report released today said rockfall danger had "always existed" in the area around Rothesay Bay. It found no evidence to suggest erosion caused by water discharged from stormwater drains in the cliffs had caused the fatal fall.
Weak rock was widespread throughout the East Coast Bays and measures to shield the public from danger along its seaside cliffs would be difficult to implement, it said. "The recent accident is indeed tragic and to our knowledge is the first known fatality of its type in Auckland. The coastline is used by people at mid to low tide, and the measures required to secure the public from injury from rockfall right up to the foot of the cliff would be extensive, expensive and difficult to construct."