Ride the Ducks, the tour company fined $308,000 by state regulators after one of its vehicles caused a fatal crash on Highway 99 last fall, is citing a century-old Washington law in an effort to dismiss a Korean family’s wrongful death lawsuit.
The family calls the law discriminatory—a vestige of anti-Asian racism in the early 20th century, they say—and their attorney claims it is the only law of its kind in the country.
Twenty-year-old Haram Kim was one of five international students studying at North Seattle College who died in the crash on September 24, 2015. They were on a field trip to Pike Place Market. A Ducks tour operator—driving and narrating simultaneously (a practice since banned by the Seattle City Council)—lost control, and the angular front end of the vehicle slammed into a bus traveling the opposite direction…
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