Photos from the collision show a large gash along the side of the charter bus, where the Ride the Ducks amphibious vehicle struck the bus.
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SUMMARY: Katie Moody and her father, Gregory Moody, were riding in the second row of the Ride the Ducks tour vehicle that collided with a charter bus on the Aurora Bridge.
In Seattle, witnesses have said they saw the duck boat’s left tire “lock up” Thursday as it swerved into a charter bus carrying worldwide students over a bridge.
The amphibious vehicle is operated by a tour company called Ride the Ducks, which offers tours known for exuberant drivers and guides who play loud music and quack through speakers as they lead tourists around the city.
The ticket booths are closed and the parking lot empty at the…
More than a dozen investigators with the NTSB are on their way to Seattle from around the country, NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss said Friday.
The goal, Weener said, was not just to understand what happened and why, but to issue safety recommendations to prevent something similar from happening in the future. A team of investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board are traveling to Seattle and will reportedly take over the accident review.
“We’ve spoken to the driver who was on the scene, our directors of safety who were on the scene”, Johnson said. Attorneys for Elizabeth Karnicki’s family allege the May 8 accident was due in part to “huge blind spots” on the duck boats.
She said she works closely with the college’s worldwide students as they arrive on campus each fall, helping them register for classes and test their English and Math abilities.
The other victims from Thursday’s crash were identified as 18-year-old Privaudo Putradauto of Indonesia, Mami Sato, 37, from Japan and a 17-year-old Chinese student whose name was not released because she is a minor. That tour was operated by Ride the Ducks worldwide, an Atlanta-based company that said on its website it operates duck tours in other parts of the USA and supplies the locally owned Seattle operation with its vehicles.
“Yesterday was one of the most hard days to be mayor”, Murray told the media afterward. Some community leaders say they’ve asked the state to put in some type of barrier between the northbound and southbound lanes.
“As you know, the debris did clear early this morning, but at North Seattle College there are still wounds in our hearts, and it’s going to take a while for our students and employees here to get through that”, the school’s president, Warren Brown, said at a news conference Friday.
The accident had shaken the diverse school of about 14,000 students, Brown said. Her family has been notified.
Katie, 30, and her parents were thrown off the Duck during the crash.
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North Seattle College student Rujia Xie, left, and Mingyue Lu, right, both global students from China who were on the charter bus that crashed, talk with the media at North Seattle College on Thursday, September 24, 2015. One person remained in critical condition in intensive care at Harborview Medical Center Friday and 11 others were in serious condition, the hospital said. He and his daughter, Ming Chao Wu, are from Taiwan, and he is a visiting scholar at the University of Washington.
