Tour Vehicle Safety Reports Never Compiled

More than two weeks after the fatal Duck Boat
accident on the Delaware, KYW Newsradio has
learned that the Streets Department never once
compiled safety reports on tour passenger vehicles
— reports that have been required annually under
city law since 2006.

More than two weeks after the fatal Duck Boat accident on the Delaware, KYW Newsradio has learned that the Streets Department never once compiled safety reports on tour passenger vehicles — reports that have been required annually under city law since 2006.

KYW’s Mike Dunn reports legislation signed into law that year by then-mayor John Street requires the Streets Department to issue a report each March on the safety of all tour vehicles operating in the city — including amphibious vehicles like Ride the Ducks.

The report would have looked at how the vehicles operated on city streets, including information about traffic violations by the tour vehicles, accidents including on the streets and the river, and injuries to passengers.

One week after KYW Newsradio requested the 2009 and 2010 reports, Deputy Streets Commissioner Steve Buckley admitted that staffers simply didn’t know the law and have never prepared the reports:

“The current staff was really unfamiliar with the code, and had not prepared the report. The chief traffic engineer was unaware that the report had to be prepared.”

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