Duck boats 直面する 増加するing calls for 改良s, 禁止（する）s
BOSTON (AP) - With their festive, party-like ambiance and ability to travel on land and in water, duck boats have long been tourist attractions for sightseers around the U.S. But a string of deadly 事故s has left the 産業 reeling, 軍隊d safety 改良s and led some 支持するs to call for a total 禁止（する） on the 乗り物s.
In Seattle, after five college students were killed in a 2015 duck boat 衝突／不一致 with a bus, the company pulled half its (n)艦隊／(a)素早い out of service. In Philadelphia, a duck boat 操作者 一時停止するd its 小旅行するs 無期限に／不明確に after three people were killed in two separate 衝突，墜落s. And in Boston, new safety 規則s are 始める，決める to go into 影響 in April after a duck boat ran over and killed a 28-year-old woman last spring.
Boston has a special fondness for duck boats, which have become a 主要な支え of parades celebrating sports 選手権s. Earlier this month, two dozen duck boats carried the New England 愛国者s through the streets of Boston for a "rolling 決起大会／結集させる" to celebrate the team's 最高の Bowl 勝利，勝つ.
FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2015, とじ込み／提出する photo, a "Ride the Ducks" 水陸両性の 小旅行する bus, 権利, and a 借り切る／憲章 bus remain at the scene of a 多重の fatality 衝突／不一致 on the Aurora 橋（渡しをする） in Seattle. With an ability to travel by both land and sea, duck boats have long been tourist attractions for sightseers around the U.S. A 洪水／多発 of deadly 事故s has 軍隊d safety 改良s and has 誘発するd some to call for a total 禁止（する） on the 乗り物s. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, とじ込み／提出する)
But duck boats have lost some of their 控訴，上告 in Boston and other places where people have been 本気で 負傷させるd or killed.
"We believe that duck boats in their 現在の design should be banned," said Ivan Warmuth, the father of Allison Warmuth, who was killed on April 30, 2016, when a duck boat ran her over on her モーター scooter.
Duck boats were 初めは used by the U.S. 軍の in World War II to 輸送（する） 軍隊／機動隊s and 供給（する）s over land and water, most famously during the 侵略 of Normandy in 1944. They were later 修正するd for use as sightseeing 乗り物s. There are now about 130 duck boats operating in more than a dozen U.S. cities, 含むing Boston, Seattle, Miami, San Diego, Honolulu and Washington.
Critics say the 2?-トン 水陸両性の 乗客 乗り物s are inherently dangerous because their design creates 非常に／多数の blind 位置／汚点／見つけ出すs for drivers, who sit 10 to 12 feet behind the 屈服する, making it difficult to see 直接／まっすぐに below and in 前線 of them.
Allison Warmuth's parents have 押し進めるd the 産業 to 可決する・採択する new safety 対策. They 首尾よく ロビーd for a Massachusetts 法律 that 要求するs duck boats to have blind 位置／汚点／見つけ出す cameras and proximity sensors. The new 法律 also 要求するs a second 従業員 - separate from the driver - to narrate the 小旅行するs.
Kevan Moniri, who was on the scooter with Warmuth, 解任するs seeing the duck boat 加速する behind them when a light turned green, then realizing the driver did not see them. ビデオ 診察するd by the 国家の Transportation Safety Board showed the driver taking his 注目する，もくろむs off the road and turning in his seat to point out 目印s during the 小旅行する.
"I hear again and again from Boston Duck 小旅行するs and any of these other companies that safety is their No. 1 優先, and if that's the 事例／患者, you can't argue that the safest way to operate the 乗り物s is for the driver to also be giving the 小旅行する," Moniri said.
Ten weeks after Warmuth was killed, a New Jersey woman was struck and 本気で 負傷させるd by a duck boat at another Boston 交差点.
Boston Duck 小旅行するs 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある officer Cindy Brown said the company "places a 賞与金 on the safety of its 乗客s" and touted 付加 cameras, a second person to narrate 小旅行するs and new 支援する-up sensors.
Safety 支持するs have sought 改良s since 1999, when 13 people died after a duck boat sank 近づく Hot Springs, Arkansas.
In the past seven years, a 一連の 事故s have （人命などを）奪う，主張するd lives, 含むing a 2010 衝突／不一致 between a 立ち往生させるd duck boat in the Delaware River and a 強く引っ張る-boat guided 船, which killed two Hungarian tourists; a 2015 衝突，墜落 that killed a Texas woman as she crossed a Philadelphia street; and the 2015 衝突／不一致 in Seattle.
The 国家の 主要道路 Transportation Safety 行政 決定するd the 前線 axle on the Seattle duck boat broke, 原因（となる）ing the driver to lose 支配（する）／統制する. The 製造業者 agreed to 支払う／賃金 up to $1 million after NHTSA said it 侵害する／違反するd 連邦の 法律s when it failed to 通知する regulators of a safety defect in the axle and did not 問題／発行する a 十分な 解任する.
The 操作者 of the Philadelphia duck boat 小旅行するs 一時停止するd 操作／手術s 無期限に／不明確に in October, 特記する／引用するing a 330 パーセント 増加する in its 保険 賞与金s.
Critics say part of the problem is that a myriad of 機関s 規制する duck boats, 含むing the U.S. Coast Guard, NHTSA, and cities and 明言する／公表するs with 変化させるing safety 必要物／必要条件s.
Ride the Ducks of Seattle stopped using its older "stretch ducks" after the 事故 and is now only using newer "トラックで運ぶ ducks," said 広報担当者 示す Firmani. The company also 追加するd 365-degree ビデオ ニュース報道 and a second 従業員 to narrate 小旅行するs, he said.
Stacey Soto's mother, 63-year-old Rosemary Hamelburg, died in 2003 after 落ちるing backward off a duck boat の上に a Boston parking lot. Soto said that にもかかわらず 存在 longtime 愛国者s season ticket 支えるもの／所有者s, her family has been unable to enjoy the team's victory 決起大会／結集させるs.
"非，不，無 of us can watch any of the duck boat parades," she said. "It's too painful."
FILE - In this July 16, 2010, とじ込み／提出する photo, police officers work the 場所／位置 of a 衝突，墜落 伴う／関わるing an 水陸両性の duck boat in Boston as the driver, 権利, identified only by his 行う／開催する／段階 指名する "Shoeless Joe," 出発／死s the scene. 明言する／公表する police said people were 扱う／治療するd for minor 傷害s after the duck boat 衝突，墜落d into several cars on a Boston 主要道路. With an ability to travel by both land and sea, duck boats have long been tourist attractions for sightseers around the U.S. A 洪水／多発 of deadly 事故s has 軍隊d safety 改良s and has 誘発するd some to call for a total 禁止（する） on the 乗り物s. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, とじ込み／提出する)
FILE - In this July 9, 2010, とじ込み／提出する photo, a duck boat （手先の）技術 is 海難救助d from the Delaware River in Philadelphia. With an ability to travel by both land and sea, duck boats have long been tourist attractions for sightseers around the U.S. A 洪水／多発 of deadly 事故s has 軍隊d safety 改良s and has 誘発するd some to call for a total 禁止（する） on the 乗り物s. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, とじ込み／提出する)
FILE - In this April 30, 2016, とじ込み／提出する photo, 捜査官／調査官s work the scene of an 事故 伴う／関わるing a duck boat where a woman died after the scooter she was 運動ing was struck by the 水陸両性の sightseeing 乗り物 in downtown Boston. With an ability to travel by land and by sea, duck boats have long been tourist attractions for sightseers around the U.S. A 洪水／多発 of deadly 事故s has 軍隊d safety 改良s and has 誘発するd some to call for a total 禁止（する） on the 乗り物s. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe 経由で AP, とじ込み／提出する)
