North Seattle College President Warren Brown said 48 students and staff from the school’s international program were on the bus, one of two chartered for the orientation. less Seattle Mayor Ed Murray speaks at a news conference Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, about the Aurora Bridge crash. A Seattle Police investigator walks off of a charter passenger bus at left that was involved in a fatal crash with the Ride the Ducks tourist vehicle at right, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015, in Seattle. When he came to rest, several rows up, he had a bloody nose and his neck and back hurt. Four fatalities and nine critical injuries were reported after a Ride the Ducks duck boat collided with a charter bus on Aurora Bridge in central Seattle. Four people, all international students at North Seattle College, died and 12 were seriously injured in a collision between a Ride the Ducks tour vehicle and a charter bus on the Aurora Bridge. Emergency vehicles surround the site of a deadly crash between a charter bus and an amphibious tour vehicle in Seattle on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. People laying in the street.” 
 
 Victims of a fatal collision between a Ride the Ducks vehicle and a charter bus on the Aurora Bridge are sent at Harborview Medical Center. “There was a wheel assembly in front of the Duck boat.” 
 
 Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole said Thursday evening that it was too early to draw any conclusions as to the cause of the deadly crash, which will be investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board. Eva Kammel, Austria’s honorary consulate for Washington, Idaho and Montana, said Derschmidt had come to Seattle about two weeks ago with her 15-year-old son. Those killed in the crash include Claudia Derschmidt, a 49-year-old woman from Austria; Privando Putradanto, an 18-year-old man from Indonesia; Mami Sato, a 36-year-old woman from Japan; and a 17-year-old girl from China whose name was not released because she is a minor. The international students killed in the crash were identified Friday morning as Claudia Derschmidt, a 49-year-old woman from Austria; Privaudo Putradauto, an 18-year-old man from Indonesia; and Mami Sato, a 37 year-old woman from Japan. Update at 3:40 p.m.: The youngest victim of the crash has been identified by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office as Runjie Song, 17, of China. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said Ride the Ducks boats have been pulled from the city's streets indefinitely. Tourists flock to the amphibious vehicles at cities around the country, as they had been in Seattle before the crash. While police have been tight-lipped so far, a Seattle Police Department spokesperson did say there was no indication that the Duck driver was drunk or otherwise impaired during the crash. He asked that people with information to call Seattle police at 206-233-5000. All told, 51 people were injured seriously enough to be taken to eight hospitals. Sixteen victims, including those with the most serious injuries, were being treated Thursday night at Harborview Medical Center. Brad Volm of Philadelphia, a driver behind the Ride the Ducks vehicle, said the amphibious vehicle swerved in front of him. Update at 1:07 p.m. Friday: Students from four countries were killed in Thursday’s collision on the Aurora Bridge between a tour bus of international students and a Ride the Ducks vehicle. They were headed to Pike Place Market and a new-student orientation at Safeco Field. Announcing that the college would reopen Monday, North Seattle College President Warren Brown described the former community college as a place of learning that draws students from around the world. “And just at that moment,” Gesner said, “I heard the driver go: ‘Oh, no!’ ” 
 
 Tim Gesner, 61, of Orlando, was on the Ride the Ducks tour vehicle that collided with a charter bus on the Aurora Bridge. The Seattle Hotel Association has offered to provide rooms for victims’ family members as they arrive in Seattle, he said. The drivers are trained to look straight ahead, even when talking to tourists, he added. He said Seattle police will conduct “a law enforcement investigation.” 
 
 Weener said the NTSB has investigated other crashes involving amphibious vehicles, but never one while it was operating on land. Harborview spokeswoman Susan Gregg said those hurt in the wreck sustained a range of injuries. Several suffered facial injuries and cuts; head injuries were also common, as were impact injuries to people thrown about in the crash. The smell of gas,” Xie said, holding a bag of ice against bruises on her face as she left the North Seattle College campus, where some of the less seriously injured students were taken. “The thoughts and prayers of this city go out to everyone ­— the families and those impacted.” 
 
 Ride the Ducks President and CEO Brian Tracey said hearing about the crash was “gut-wrenching.” 
 
 “Getting word of the news, the people that were injured, you feel like you’ve been punched in the stomach,” Tracey said outside the Ride the Ducks headquarters near Seattle Center. The Duck name is derived from the designation DUKW for vehicles used as landing craft by the U.S. military during World War II. The state Utilities and Transportation Commission issued Ride the Ducks a satisfactory rating in a 2012 evaluation that examined driver qualifications, employee drug and alcohol testing and vehicle maintenance records. The vehicles are equipped with multiple cameras and mirrors, and are inspected annually by the state Department of Transportation and the Coast Guard.
– Four people killed when a Ride the Ducks amphibious vehicle collided with a bus in Seattle yesterday have been identified as international students at North Seattle College. Authorities say they were among 48 staff and students from six countries who were touring the city on a chartered bus before classes started Monday. Another 51 people were injured in the crash, including 15 critically, though some have been upgraded to serious condition, reports SeattlePI.com. "I turned and looked, and that's when I saw the carnage," a 61-year-old passenger on the Ducks vehicle tells the Seattle Times. "People I was sitting next to weren't there … they had been thrown completely out of the back of the Duck." He says he felt the rear of the vehicle fishtail before the crash. "And just at that moment, I heard the driver go: 'Oh, no!'" A witness originally said the Ducks vehicle experienced some kind of malfunction and perhaps lost a wheel before the crash. A man driving one of two SUVs also involved in the accident agrees something went wrong, noting he saw red fluid leaking from the Duck's front left tire, which appeared to seize up, before the vehicle slammed into the driver's side of the bus. Seattle police say they're investigating a possible mechanical failure on the Ducks vehicle but add it's too early to pinpoint a cause of the accident. "We've had a terrible tragedy," Mayor Ed Murray says. "The thoughts and prayers of this city go out to everyone—the families and those impacted." He adds the Ride the Ducks tour has voluntarily taken its vehicles off Seattle's streets for now.