14 injured in Seattle crash in intensive care

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said Ride the Ducks Seattle had voluntarily sidelined its vehicles for the time being.

“It happened so fast”, he said. “I just immediately got up, which I shouldn’t have done, and looked for mom and dad and had to lay back down”. “People lying in the street”, Volm said.

The people on the bus were employees and students in the global program at North Seattle College, the school said. Efforts are underway to contact their consulates. The passengers on the bus were students and staff at the school. Brown previously said she was from China.

Trang Nguyen, 18, a newly arrived worldwide student from the Vietnamese city of Vung Tau, said she didn’t join Thursday’s bus tour because she was feeling sick.

Images of the fiery accident yesterday on a busy bridge showed extensive damage to the left side of the bus, part of which was completely sheared off by the force of the crash.

Four worldwide students died in the crash Thursday involving a charter bus and two other vehicles.

Authorities say 51 people were taken to area hospitals, and 14 remained in intensive care at Seattle hospitals.

Fifteen of the most seriously wounded victims were taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Three others are in satisfactory condition. The bridge has no median separating the northbound and southbound lanes. The city’s focus was on helping victims and investigating the crash, but duck-boat safety “will obviously be reviewed and evaluated in the days to come”, Murray spokesman Viet Shelton said.

Four people were killed and dozens more were injured in the horrific crash. Initial reports described the accident as a head-on collision.

The driver of the charter bus reported that the duck boat “careened” into them on the bridge, Richard Johnson, president of Bellair Charters, said Friday.

He wouldn’t speculate on the cause of the crash. “Our main concern right now is with the families of those hurt and killed”. There were two other vehicles involved in the deadly accident.

Tracey told CBS Seattle affiliate KIRO-TV his vehicles have clean safety records.

“We’ll be looking at the entire fleet, all their drivers”.

A family from Fremont, California, is grateful to be alive after they were thrown from an amphibious tour vehicle that collided with a charter bus in Seattle.

Tracey told KIRO 7 News that usually when vehicles go over the Aurora Bridge, drivers put flashers on an slow down.

“These are military craft that were never created to navigate narrow city streets”, said Steve Bulzomi, the attorney for a motorcyclist who was run over and dragged by a duck boat that came up behind him at a stoplight in Seattle in 2011.

Seattle police conducted a preliminary evaluation of the drivers Thursday and said they not find any evidence of impairment.

The investigation is being watched by other operators of the hugely popular duck boat tours.

Katie Moody says she “looked up and saw the bus headed toward us”. She called the scene “traumatic” with a lot of blood. “The others seem to have suffered relatively light injuries”. “She was holding my hand and saying thank you”, she said. “I felt helpless”. The impact ripped open the bus and victims were strewn around the wreckage.