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2 — THE EXAMINER, Tuesday, October 20, 2015
OUR MISSION: TASMANIA’SNEWS LEADER,
CONNECTING OUR COMMUNITY
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Businessman, 40,dies in coastal crashA 40-year-old Youngtown man,travelling to Circular Head forbusiness was killed in a crashon the Bass Highway at RockyCape on Monday afternoon.
The crash was between aKelly’s Waste Managementgarbage truck and a greyMazda hatchback.
The incident happened onthe western side of Montu-mana Road near the RockyCape public hall about 2.15pm.
The 51-year-old Burnietruck driver was taken to
North West Regional Hospitalby ambulance where he lastnight underwent surgery forfacial injuries.
Tasmania Police said the cardriver was trapped in thevehicle and pronounced deadat the scene.
Police said it appeared thetruck was heading in an east-erly direction and the car washeaded west.
Police said the Mazda appar-ently crossed into the path ofthe truck before both vehicles
crossed into the west-boundlane, crashing into a ditch offthe road.
They said the road surfacewas good and dry with thecrash occurring on a slightcurve.
The truck was heading downa slight incline, while the carwas heading up the hill.
Transport inspectors ar-rived at the scene at 4.30pm.
The Bass Highway wasclosed for several hours dur-ing investigations.
Tasmania Police wanted tothank passersby who attendedto both drivers at the scenebefore emergency services ar-rived.
Accident Investigation Ser-vices are investigating and areport will be completed forthe coroner.
The scene was attended byTasmania Police, AmbulanceTasmania, SES and bothMontumana and Hellyer firebrigades.
Sports stars to present scholarships
Ricky Ponting Daniel Geale
Former Australian Testcaptain Ricky Pontingand champion boxerDaniel Geale will bothbe in Launceston onSaturday.
These Launceston-born sports icons willpresent three Com-munity Housing Lim-ited scholarships to re-cipients from thenorthern suburbs in abid to enhance theiremployment opportun-ities.
The hand-over will beheld at The Boathouse,Inveresk.
CHL managing dir-ector Steve Bevingtonsaid the program wasintroduced for peopleaged between 12 to 18
years living in housingmanaged by the com-pany under the BetterHousing Futures pro-gram in Mayfield, Mow-bray, Ravenswood, Roc-herlea and Waverly.
The inaugural Com-munity Scholarship
Program in Tasmaniaoffers three scholar-ships capped at $3500for recipients to under-take vocational study ineducation, sport andperforming arts.
‘‘We recognise the fin-ancial barriers that can
hinder enrolment intostudy for the disadvant-aged and vulnerableyoung adults and there-fore this program is aninitiative to provide fin-ancial assistance tothose who wish to pur-sue vocational educa-tion opportunities andenhance their skills andcreate a path for theirfuture,’’ he said
‘‘The aim of the schol-arship program is tomore broadly work to-wards addressing thissocial disadvantage bycreating access to op-portunities for theyouth living in theseareas to acquire andenhance skills in the
areas of arts, educationand sports.’’
Mr Bevington saidLaunceston’s low socio-economic areas experi-enced high unemploy-ment, with about 60 percent of residents aged 15and above being eitherunemployed or theiremployment status isunknown.
He said his companywanted to help to im-prove the region’s situ-ation and that the pro-gram also assisted withsocial and professionaldevelopment.
Applications closedon October 2 and havebeen assessed by an in-dependent panel.
Suspicious bag causes CBD alert
Police and bomb response officers at the Menzies building in Hobart on Monday.
TASMANIA Police saythreats made to the Uni-versity of Tasmania last weekhad no impact on its handlingof a suspicious package in theHobart CBD on Monday.
A bag found on a ledge atthe Menzies building wasdeemed suspicious, and staffand students were evacuatedand the bomb response unitcalled in.
Bomb response officersX-rayed the bag and opened it,and discovered a sleeping bagand other non-suspiciousitems.
The two-hour operationclosed down parts of Hobart,but Inspector David Plump-ton said it was not a waste ofresources.
‘‘It shows the systems thatare in place can respond andensure people are safe,’’ In-spector Plumpton said.
‘‘At the end of the day, that’swhat it’s about,’’ he said.
Inspector Plumpton saidthreats made online about theUniversity of Tasmania lastweek did not impact Tas-mania Police’s handling ofthe situation.
‘‘We would have respondedin exactly the same way,whether that threat occurredor not,’’ he said.
‘‘In times as they are at themoment where people have
got heightened concerns,packages of this nature willalways be deemed suspicious.
‘‘At the end of the day wewill respond, as will the fireservice and the ambulanceservice, to events of this
nature and make a determin-ation,’’ he said.
He said police would deter-mine why the ‘‘swag-type’’backpack was deliberatelyplaced on a ledge above headheight.
