the drive towards this draft government was resulted in part from a succession of vehicle - themed disasters in the late 1980s , such as the sinking of cross - waterway barge the dawn of freely organization in 1987 , the industrial platform hawker alpha disaster in 1988 , and the baroness kingston river boating collision in 1989 . more than 400 people claimed their lives in these three events , but no sole one or community was come to account .
100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.