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CTV News
11 hours ago
- CTV News
Vehicle crashes into downtown Halifax hotel
A vehicle crashed into Cambridge Suites Hotel in Halifax on July 31, 2025. (Source: Jayson Baxter) A vehicle crashed through the front of Cambridge Suites Hotel in downtown Halifax on Thursday afternoon. Const. Martin Cromwell with the Halifax Regional Police said officers responded to the reported single-vehicle accident around 12:55 p.m. They learned the driver's foot allegedly slipped, sending the vehicle into the building. A woman suffered a cut to her head from glass during the incident and the driver sustained minor bruises and bumps, according to Cromwell. Halifax hotel crash A vehicle went through the front of the Cambridge Suites Hotel in downtown Halifax on July 31, 2025. (Source: Jayson Baxter) The scene is now clear. More to come… Hotel crash A vehicle crashed into Cambridge Suites Hotel in Halifax on July 31, 2025. (Source: Jayson Baxter) For more Nova Scotia news, visit our dedicated provincial page
BBC News
2 days ago
- BBC News
Pensioner's hotel scalding death could have been prevented
The death of a pensioner who was fatally scalded after being trapped in a Perthshire hotel room bath could have been avoided, an inquiry has Hunter died at the Pitlochry Hydro in 2019 after being trapped in the bath, while guests and emergency services tried to smash in the door.A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) found that the failure of safety components in the unmaintained bath tap caused Mr Hunter to accidentally discharge scalding water into the bath in which he was hotel is under new ownership following the collapse of Specialist Leisure Group in 2020. Mr Hunter's family said the judgement was "the most difficult thing we have ever had to read".His son Keir previously described the 90-minute effort to rescue his father as "a horror story." Efforts to help the 75-year-old from Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire, were hampered by the door opening outwards and being bolted from the John MacRitchie ruled that Mr Hunter's death could have been avoided if there had been annual maintenance of the bath tap and "a more formal analysis of guest complaints about the discharge of excessively hot water in the hotel bathrooms."The sheriff said: "These defects on the balance of probabilities contributed to the death and the accident resulting in the death of Mr Hunter. "It is reasonable to infer that the lack of, not just annual, but any maintenance of the tap and its components did in fact contribute to the death."The sheriff added that the fitting of a bathroom door lock release, operable from the bedroom, would have allowed emergency access to the bathroom to remove Mr Hunter from the water and could also have prevented his inquiry heard that all bathrooms at the hotel with outward-opening doors have now had their locks removed completely. Mr Hunter was staying at the hotel with his wife Janice at the time of the incident in December was found to have suffered third-degree burns to 83% of his body after fire crews finally managed to break down the inquiry heard that a Health and Safety Executive investigation found that the mixer tap in the bathroom was more than 30 years temperature control was "very sensitive", and it did not satisfactorily isolate the hot water when the cold water shut inquiry heard that a number of complaints about the controls, high temperatures, "boiling hot" showers or lack of cold water were recorded in the hotel maintenance log in the nine months leading up to Mr Hunter's death. In a joint statement issued by Thompsons Solicitors Scotland, Mr Hunter's son Keir and his daughter Kimberley said: ''The sheriff's judgement is the most difficult thing we have ever had to read."It describes in full detail our dad's excruciating and drawn-out final moments but also shines a light on the fact that his death could and would have been avoided had the hotel used qualified maintenance staff and had the most basic of maintenance regimes in place for its hot water supply."The fault which caused our father's death had been complained about by many previous guests and was well known to the the hotel management. "They ignored these warnings."
The Sun
16-06-2025
- The Sun
Brit tourist, 24, fights for life after horror hotel balcony fall in popular holiday hotspot
A BRITISH tourist is fighting for his life after plunging ten metres from a hotel balcony in Ayia Napa. Police said the 24-year-old fell at around 8pm on Sunday evening from his hotel in the Cyprus resort town. 2 2 The lad was rushed taken to the Famagusta hospital in Paralimni, but then urgently transferred to Nicosia general hospital - the largest on the island. Doctors have described his condition as 'serious', and cops have launched an investigation into the circumstances. is your go-to destination for the best celebrity news, real-life stories, jaw-dropping pictures and must-see video.
