\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEleven people were injured, one seriously, after a duck boat overturned on a ramp near the Charles River Saturday afternoon, the Cambridge Fire Department and Boston EMS confirmed.The incident happened just after 3 p.m. on a boat ramp at 10 Museum Way near the Education Street side of the Charles River in Cambridge, state police said. “While being towed on our boat ramp, one of our vehicles rolled onto its side when the tow rope broke,” Boston Duck Tours Director of Marketing and Sales Tom Vigna said in a statement. “As a precaution, we have suspended operations for the remainder of the day. We are working with Massachusetts State Police and the U.S. Coast Guard to review the incident.” No one ended up in the water as a result of the overturning and all duck boat occupants are accounted for, state police said.According to State Police, the boat had a technical issue and had to be towed. 31 people were on board at the time.Watch: How duck boat safety has been upgraded over timeOne woman told NewsCenter 5 that she heard a big bang and scraping sound and then heard yelling and crying.She later saw people getting off the boat and many of them looked like they had scratches and were bleeding.According to Boston EMS, one of the occupants suffered serious injuries. The duck boat, named Molly Mollasses, was christened in 1999.In 2016, a duck boat was filled with tourists when it hit a woman riding a scooter. The woman was killed and another person was injured.A settlement following that crash prevented the driver from working as a duck boat operator.NewsCenter 5 will continue to provide updates as we learn more information.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Eleven people were injured, one seriously, after a duck boat overturned on a ramp near the Charles River Saturday afternoon, the Cambridge Fire Department and Boston EMS confirmed.<\/p>\n
The incident happened just after 3 p.m. on a boat ramp at 10 Museum Way near the Education Street side of the Charles River in Cambridge, state police said. <\/p>\n
“While being towed on our boat ramp, one of our vehicles rolled onto its side when the tow rope broke,” Boston Duck Tours Director of Marketing and Sales Tom Vigna said in a statement. “As a precaution, we have suspended operations for the remainder of the day. We are working with Massachusetts State Police and the U.S. Coast Guard to review the incident.” <\/p>\n
No one ended up in the water as a result of the overturning and all duck boat occupants are accounted for, state police said.<\/p>\n
According to State Police, the boat had a technical issue and had to be towed. 31 people were on board at the time.<\/p>\n
Watch: How duck boat safety has been upgraded over time\t<\/p>\n
One woman told NewsCenter 5 that she heard a big bang and scraping sound and then heard yelling and crying.<\/p>\n
She later saw people getting off the boat and many of them looked like they had scratches and were bleeding.<\/p>\n
According to Boston EMS, one of the occupants suffered serious injuries. <\/p>\n
The duck boat, named Molly Mollasses, was christened in 1999.<\/p>\n
In 2016, a duck boat was filled with tourists when it hit a woman riding a scooter. The woman was killed and another person was injured.<\/p>\n
A settlement following that crash prevented the driver from working as a duck boat operator.<\/p>\n
NewsCenter 5 will continue to provide updates as we learn more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleven people were injured, one seriously, after a duck boat overturned on a ramp near the Charles River…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[311017,8731,314677,314676,4,450,21550,314679,152133,15441,314674,451,10072,20174,1275,2001,314675,3,184025,9083,139209,3590,1583,92248,314678,15686,22802,452,453,17337,282],"class_list":["post-730607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-boat-ramp","tag-boston","tag-boston-duck-tours-director","tag-boston-ems","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cambridge","tag-cambridge-fire-department","tag-charles-river","tag-crash","tag-duck-boat","tag-headlines","tag-incident","tag-injuries","tag-marketing","tag-massachusetts","tag-museum-of-science","tag-news","tag-newscenter","tag-one","tag-overturned","tag-people","tag-police","tag-remainder","tag-sales-tom-vigna","tag-scene","tag-state-police","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-victims","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}