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The members of the Utilities and Transportation Commission gathered together in an urgent meeting to remove all the military “duck boats” owned by Ride the Ducks by Seattle from the streets for the time being, according to the Associated Press. Authorities are looking...

Early indications are that despite a service bulletin issued in 2013 by Ride the Ducks worldwide, the Seattle firm had not repaired axles on any of its vehicles, Pratt said.

All “Ride the Ducks” vehicles will be kept off the streets until they are deemed “road-worthy and safe”, said Brian Tracey, owner of Ride the Ducks of Seattle.

The vehicle in the crash underwent regular annual examinations by a federally certified inspector, most recently in 2015 and 2014, and met federal standards, said Amanda Maxwell, spokeswoman for the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission.

“It happened so fast”, he said.

The North Seattle College community has begun the long process of healing after losing four worldwide students in a crash between a tour bus and duck boat tourist vehicle, the school’s president said Friday.

The duck boat tour operator issued a statement: “Ride the Ducks of Seattle wishes to express its sincerest condolences to the family and friends of the people who were killed and those that were injured”, it said.

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

The deadly crash also left several injured after the charter bus and duck boat tour bus collided on Aurora Bridge in Seattle, Washington. “It’s our typical companywide inspection”, Gill said.

Investigators on Friday combed through the wreckage of two buses that crashed in Seattle, as authorities released the names of the four foreign students who died in the accident, AFP reports.

The youngest fatality is 17-year-old Runjie Song from China. School officials who earlier released the names of the other victims hadn’t given out the teen’s name because she was a minor.

He did not know how the crash happened, but said the company is fully cooperating with investigators.

North Seattle College said on Friday four college students killed in a head-on collision of their charter bus and an amphibious tour bus were from Austria, Indonesia, Japan and China.

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.

Claudia Derschmidt, a 49-year-old woman from Austria.