We mentioned the first accident on this blog – three vehicles were involved - a Duck boat named “Old Gloria”, a pickup truck and a Zipcar carrying a bride to her wedding - but luckily no one got hurt.
The second accident, which happened last Friday, involved multiple vehicles and caused injuries.
According to news reports about the event, the duck boat "Dorchester Dottie" crashed into with several cars at Charles Circle. At least seven vehicles were involved in the crash.
Allegedly, the boat was unable to stop – the brakes didn’t fail, Boston Duck Tours officials said, but there was something lodged behind the brake pedal.
A woman in one of the struck cars, Marjorie Ross of Springfield, said that when she looked in the rear-view mirror, “all I saw were polka dots coming toward me."
Even though many people were injured in the collision, no one suffered serious injuries.
Another duck boat was involved in a fatal crash with a barge in Philadelphia only a week before that, which killed two people.
Clearly, these recent duck boat accidents point out to a need for more driver attention, and we hope that the unfortunate deaths and injuries will keep duck boat operators on their toes so there will be no more duck boat crashes this summer.
News Sources: CNN, Boston Globe, Bostonist.
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