After Yesterday’s Fatal Crash, Renewed Questions about Ride — The Morning News

The collision on the Aurora Bridge, which carries one of the city’s main north-south highways, left behind a tangled mess of twisted metal and shattered glass. Board member Earl Weener said there could be some unknowns.

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Elizabeth Van Inwegen cleared her schedule Friday morning to attend the meeting at the college, where she’s worked for the past two years as an admission office assistant.

A tour bus, right, and a chartered passenger bus, left, remain on… It is to help improve safety.

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 city was notifying victims’ family and helping to coordinate travel to the United States.

“We didn’t have a chance to develop a long-term relationship with these students”, college President Warren Brown said.

Three out of the four global students killed when a Ride a Duck tour bus collided with a charter bus have been identified, North Seattle College said.

About 960 students past year were enrolled in North Seattle’s worldwide Program, according to the college. She was here with her 15-year-old son. He was on the bus with her.

The collision occurred around 11:15 a.m. on the Aurora Bridge.

There are two cameras on Ride the Ducks vehicles.

Even before the crash, calls had emerged for greater oversight and even an outright ban on the military-style vehicles that allow tourists to see cities by road and water.

“Last night (we) met with one of the mothers and had to share with her that her son had passed away”, Seattle mayor Ed Murray told reporters. “The first thing will be to investigate the Duck bus”. “We’ll figure out how and if we need to make changes on the bridge, if the bridge was an issue or not”, Murray said.

Seattle Police investigators photograph the front tire from a Ride… With the crash, the WUTC will do a full investigation on Monday. They were on an orientation and visiting local sights such as Safeco Field.

“I turned and looked, and that’s when I saw the carnage”, he said. I got out of my auto, and there were just bodies, just everywhere.

Gesner, who was not seriously injured, jumped into action to help the other victims. “People laying in the street”.

The Japanese Consulate in Seattle confirmed the information about Sato and said four other Japanese are being treated at hospitals but their conditions are not life-threatening.

Student Cassandra Miller, who carried white carnations into the memorial, said the accident was “sad, especially for the parents in other countries”.

“Hearing the impact, that was the scariest part”, Katie Moody said.

The crash sent all 37 people on the duck boat into the river, but 16-year-old Dora Schwendtner and 20-year-old Szabolcs Prem never resurfaced.

Ride the Ducks was scheduled for its next inspection in October.

Lying in his hospital bed, Tim Gesner, 61, of Orlando, Florida, told The Seattle Times he was standing in the back of the duck boat and trying to take a picture with his cellphone after their tour guide pointed out the view. “And there is a reason for that”. Twelve people were in critical condition and many others had minor injuries, he told The Associated Press. All 11 were in the intensive care unit.

About 90 Seattle firefighters and medics responded.

Cathy Strassman, a tourist from Green Bay, Wis., was riding in the Duck vehicle with some friends when she was thrown from her seat. There are no seat belts on board.

Several people were critically injured.

Five victims were transported to Virginia Mason Medical Center following the crash.

Ongoing education classes are given to captains and drivers, Tracey said. He said he did not know what caused the crash.

He added that the company that operates the Ducks tours had agreed to pull all its vehicles off the streets for the time being.