BOSTON — A sightseeing boat collided with a car in downtown Boston on Thursday afternoon.
The accident happened at around 1:30 p.m. near the intersection of State and Congress streets, near the Old State House.
Images show the front of a Boston Duck Tour amphibious vehicle pressed up against the driver's side door of a white sedan.
No injuries were reported in the crash, according to Boston officials. The area was closed off while police investigated the incident.
Witnesses at the scene said the duck boat was not at fault in this crash, saying the woman driving the sedan turned onto State Street from Congress Street in front of the amphibious vehicle.
"I don’t know whose fault it is [but] I know it could’ve been a lot worse," said Bruce Baxter, of Haverhill, who was aboard the duck boat. "The driver took every opportunity she had to prevent this from what it was."
One duck boat passenger said it looked as though the two drivers were trying to merge together when they crashed.
"I heard this weird loud screeching, the duck boat was pushing the car up the street," said Jennifer Krakovsky, a witness. "The duck boat had hit the car."
Boston Duck Tours released a statement saying, in part, that there are unconfirmed reports from a witness that said the duck boat driver was not at fault.
The accident comes amid increased scrutiny of the use of duck boats to conduct tours in urban areas after 17 people were killed last month after an amphibious tourist boat sank in Missouri.
In 2016, 28-year-old Allison Warmuth died when a duck boat ran over her as she rode a motor scooter near the Boston Common. State law has since been changed to mandate having two people on board giving the tour, one driver and one tour guide.
"A driver can’t operate one of these safely while trying to entertain people, she was one hundred percent concentrating on the road."