PHILADELPHIA, April 30, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- Attorney Robert J. Mongeluzzi, expressing his deepest
sympathies over the loss of life today in Boston following a fatal accident involving a
duck boat and a motor scooter, called yet again for an immediate
federal moratorium on duck boat tour operations nationwide.
"How many more people have to die in duck boat accidents before
authorities realize they are deadly on land and in the water,"
stated Mr. Mongeluzzi. "Through our experience representing victims
of duck boat disasters we've determined they are fatally flawed;
they're death traps on the water due to their hazardous canopy
design and on land they are engineered to restrict the peripheral
vision of the operator, creating significant blind spots."
On July 7, 2010 – two young
tourists on a Ride The Ducks (not the owner-operator of
the Boston tour boat) Delaware
River cruise were killed in an incident that sparked international
controversy over whether the amphibious boat with a checkered past
could safely operate. He and his team from Saltz, Mongeluzzi,
Barrett & Bendesky, P.C., who represented the families of the
victims in the 2010 duck boat tragedy, now represent the victim in
the May 8, 2015 death by duck boat of tourist pedestrian
Elizabeth 'Liz' Karnicki, PhD. She was struck and killed by a Ride
the Ducks duck boat while crossing a Center City Philadelphia street with her
husband, Dr. Daniel C. Karnicki,
during their visit to Philadelphia. The wrongful lawsuit brought by
Mr. Mongeluzzi's firm seeks to hold Ride the Ducks responsible for
the preventable tragedy, and to ensure the safety of other
unsuspecting, defenseless citizens.
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SOURCE Saltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett, & Bendesky, P.C.