Tag: ride the ducks

August 7, 2023

Watch: An analysis of the 2015 Ride the Ducks tragedy on the Aurora Bridge

Nearly eight years after the Ride the Ducks tragedy on the Aurora Bridge, YouTube channel Brick Immortar recently released a detailed walkthrough of the event, including the history of the vehicles and details from the NTSB investigation’s report. It is tough to revisit the tragedy, but it’s important that we understand as a society how…
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tagged: aurora bridge, brick immortar, ntsb, ride the ducks, video
August 28, 2018

Survivor who lost family in Branson Duck tour tragedy calls for a nationwide ban

Tia Coleman lost her husband, their three kids and five more family members July 19th when a Ride the Ducks tour boat sank in a Branson, Missouri, storm. In all, 17 people on the Duck have died. The scale of her loss is unimaginable. Now she is calling on the Federal government to ban the…
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February 18, 2016

Seattle traffic deaths up in 2015, but serious injuries are down

Twenty people died in Seattle traffic last year, up from 2014’s total of 17 and above the trend the city needs to achieve zero traffic deaths by 2030, one of the city’s Vision Zero goals. Mayor Ed Murray did not mention bikes in his State of the City address. But he did mention traffic safety saying,…
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January 14, 2016

Ride the Ducks plans to use scary Fremont bike merge lane starting Friday

If you bike across the Fremont Bridge regularly, then you know this terrible merge lane well. People biking are routed down a ramp into what becomes a shared bike and right turn lane. You have to be extremely on guard, but there’s also an element of simply hoping that anyone merging to go right sees…
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September 24, 2015

The massive casualty toll in the Ride the Ducks collision is hard to comprehend

From January through the end of August, five people had been killed in Seattle traffic. In a single collision today, four people were killed, eight were critically injured, eight more were seriously injured, and one is in “satisfactory” condition, according to the Seattle Times. Numbers like these are hard to wrap your head around. Each…
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