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TexasTowelie

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Fri Feb 8, 2019, 06:34 AM Feb 2019

Jury awards $123M to victims in Seattle duck boat crash

SEATTLE -- A jury has awarded about $123 million to the victims and families of a 2015 duck boat crash that killed five college students and injured more than 60 others in Seattle.

After a four-month civil trial, King County Superior Court jurors found that Ride The Ducks International bore 67 to 70 percent of the responsibility for the crash, The Seattle Times reported .

The company, based in Branson, Missouri, is the manufacturer of the Duck amphibious vehicle that crossed the centerline of the Aurora Bridge and rammed into a charter bus full of international college students in 2015.

The jury found that tour vehicle operator Ride The Ducks of Seattle was 30 to 33 percent at fault.

Read more here: https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/business/article225951545.html#storylink=cpy

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Jury awards $123M to victims in Seattle duck boat crash (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2019 OP
Would you ever get into one of those things? 3Hotdogs Feb 2019 #1
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