Stritmatter Trial Insider: Dinh v Ride The Ducks. An accident, its origins, and its aftermath. A production of Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore, and hosted by Sara Bernard. With court testimony, interviews, and archival sound, this podcast pieces together the legal and historical landscape that surrounded the fatal collision between a Ride the Ducks vehicle and a charter bus on September 24, 2015 in Seattle. It explores the months-long trial that ensued and hears from people whose lives will never be the same. But the 2015 crash was not the only duck boat accident. There have been many others across the country and world, a number of them fatal. How do duck boats — repurposed U.S. military vehicles from World War II — sustain so many major accidents and remain in the tourist business? After this and other lawsuits, will they?
On September 24, 2015, a Ride the Ducks Seattle amphibious vehicle, a.k.a. "duck boat," collided with a charter bus carrying dozens of international s...
The biggest lawsuit, and, eventually, trial, to come out of this accident was filed on behalf of 43 plaintiffs, known as The Dinh Plaintiff Group. The...
What are duck boats, anyway? First designed for the U.S. military during World War II, the amphibious vehicles were transformed over the decades into ...
From the beginning, it was clear that a mechanical failure caused the duck boat to lose control on the Aurora Bridge in Seattle. But what really cause...
The accident in Seattle in 2015 was just one many fatal and injury accidents involving duck boats. Yet there are a number of governmental regulators, ...
The verdict in the Ride the Ducks trial in Seattle was handed down in January 2019. And just like the 2015 accident was not the only accident, this la...