The term incidents refers to major accidents, injuries, or deaths that occur at a Herschend-owned or -operated facility.
In July 2010 one of the amphibious vehicles stalled on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was struck by a barge, sinking the duck boat and killing two of the passengers, who were Hungarian tourists.
The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of the accident was the tugboat operator's inattention to his duties.
[41] On May 8, 2015, a Ride the Ducks boat struck and killed a 68-year-old Beaumont, Texas, woman crossing the street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Chinatown section.
Witnesses at the scene say that the woman crossed against a red light while viewing content on a tablet and was struck while in the boat's front blind spot.