The ferry dock gangway that collapsed on Georgia’s Sapelo Island last year, killing seven people, was “poorly constructed and destined to fail,” the victims’ families said in a new lawsuit.

A still photo of the Sapelo Island Ferry dock taken prior to the ferry dock gangway collapse on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, as the last ferry was leaving the island (Photo: John Taylor).

ATLANTA — The ferry dock gangway that collapsed on Georgia’s Sapelo Island last year, killing seven people, was “poorly constructed and destined to fail,” the victims’ families said in a ...

When the ferry dock collapsed, 20 people plunged into the Duplin River; seven of them, all aged from 73 to 93 years old, perished.

Relatives of seven people who drowned last fall when a walkway collapsed at a state-operated ferry dock on a Georgia island are suing the companies that built it. The lawsuit ...

The lawsuit targets four private contractors hired to design and rebuild the ferry dock and walkway for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. The project was finished in 2021.

ATLANTA (AP) — Relatives of seven people who drowned in waters off a Georgia island after a ferry dock walkway collapsed announced Wednesday they filed a lawsuit against the companies that ...

“These seven people did not have to die on the Sapelo Island gangway dock,” Crump said. News4JAX obtained records last November revealing concerns about the gangway before the collapse.