The Latest: Group ‘co-operating’ after fatal duck boat crash

By The Associated Press

BOSTON – The Latest on a woman driving a scooter struck and killed by a duck boat in Boston (all times local):

4:15 p.m.

A spokesman for Boston Duck Tours says the tour group is co-operating with police after one of its amphibious sightseeing vehicles struck and killed a 29-year-old woman on a scooter in downtown Boston.

Spokesman Bob Schwartz said in an email Saturday the company was trying to obtain video footage to see what exactly had occurred.

The crash happened around 11:30 a.m. near public park Boston Common.

A city police department spokeswoman said the woman and her male passenger were taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where the woman died from her injuries. The passenger suffered non-life threatening injuries.

The police spokeswoman says there were about 30 passengers on the vessel, known as a duck boat, when the crash happened. There were no other injuries.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

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3:10 p.m.

A 29-year-old woman has died after the scooter she was driving was struck by an amphibious sightseeing vehicle in downtown Boston.

The crash happened around 11:30 a.m. Saturday right near public park Boston Common.

A city police department spokeswoman said the woman and her male passenger were taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where the woman died from her injuries. The passenger suffered non-life threatening injuries.

The spokeswoman says there were about 30 passengers on the vessel, known as a duck boat, when the crash happened. There were no other injuries.

A Boston Duck Tours spokesman didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment. A person who answered the company’s phone declined to comment.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

No further details were immediately available.

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1:45 p.m.

A woman has died after she was struck by an amphibious sightseeing vehicle in downtown Boston.

The crash happened around 11:30 a.m. Saturday right near public park Boston Common.

A city police department spokeswoman said the person hit was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with life-threatening injuries. Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans told WCVB-TV the woman had died.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether passengers were on the vessel, known as a duck boat, when the crash happened.

A Boston Duck Tours spokesman didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment.

There’s no word on the cause of the crash.

No further details were immediately available.

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