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Statement of Counsel for the Families who lost their children in the duck boat disaster
“The families are gratified that Federal prosecutors have acted to hold one of the responsible parties accountable in this tragedy that should have been avoided. They continue to have faith in the American justice system and expect the corporations who were involved to acknowledge their roles and act accordingly."
Issued by:
- Peter Ronai
- Holly Ostrov Ronai
Manslaughter Charges in Philadelphia Duck Boat Accident
ABC News
By LEE FERRAN and RICHARD ESPOSITO
July 14, 2011
STATEMENT OF COUNSEL REGARDING RELEASE OF NTSB DOCUMENTS IN DUCK BOAT FATAL ACCIDENT INVETIGATION
March 7, 2011
“Cell phones kill when they distract drivers behind the wheel of a car,” said the New York-based attorneys who are frequently in Hungary and recently met with the survivors. “And on July 7, 2010 the crew member of the tug boat responsible for safe operations was talking on his cell phone instead of paying full attention to Delaware River traffic, including the disabled duck boat floating in the shipping channel.”
“The loving families in Hungary cannot understand how a tug boat operator can be using a cell phone when his boat is about to destroy a tourist boat,” said the lawyers. “Even in the small villages where the victims, DoraSchwendtner and Szabolcs Prem, lived, it is illegal to talk on a cell phone while driving a car. The families also continue to wonder why eight months after the accident those responsible have still not been held accountable.” They said they also are also shocked that, given the release of the NTSB reports, there is consideration of allowing Ride the Ducks to resume operations on the Delaware River.
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Statement by Peter Ronai, Esq. and Holly Ostrov Ronai, Esq. on Behalf of Hungarian Student-Victims of July 7, 2010 Duck Boat Fatal Accident
PR Newswire
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25, 2011
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The lawyers at Ronai and Ronai, LLP are currently representing the two families of the only children that died in the Duck Boat tragedy in Philadelphia.
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Duck Boat Accident: Victims' Parents Arrive in Philly
By Justin Pizzi
NBCPhiladelphia.com
August 17, 2010
The parents of the two young victims who died in this summer's Duck Boat Accident. They are pursuing wrongful death suits...
Parents Of Duck Boat Victims See Crash Site
By Cydney Long
CBS 3 EYEWITNESS NEWS
August 17, 2010
The parents of two Hungarian students killed when an amphibious tour boat was struck by another vessel in Philadelphia have visited the site where their children died...
Parents of duck boat victims talk
By Katherine Scott
ABC 6 ACTION NEWS
August 17, 2010
PENN'S LANDING - Parents of the two Hungarian students killed in the duck boat crash last month want answers and they have made their first trip to the United States to get them...
Philadelphiában jártak és a sajtóval is szóba álltak Dóra és Szabolcs szülei
Koszorút vittek halott gyermekük emlékére a Delaware folyó partjára az emlékezetes július 7-i hajóbalesetben elhunyt Győr-Moson-Sopron fiatalok szülei. S. Dóra (†16) és P. Szabolcs (†20) szülei kedden érkeztek meg az Egyesült Államokba, mint mondták, szerették volna látni a tragédia helyszínét, egyúttal a baleset feltételezett felelősei ellen indított per papírmunkáit intézték - írja a Blikk.hu...
Parents of duck boat victims see Pa. crash site
By MaryClaire Dale (AP)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
August 17, 2010
PHILADELPHIA — The parents of two Hungarian students killed last month when an amphibious tour boat crashed into another vessel visited the Philadelphia site Tuesday and were stunned to see a similar boat on the river.
The families of exchange students Szabolcs Prem, 20, and Dora Schwendtner, 16, tossed wreaths into the Delaware River during a brief visit to Penn's Landing....
Families of Philly duck boat victims file lawsuit
By MaryClaire Dale (AP)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
August 10, 2010
PHILADELPHIA — The parents of two Hungarian students killed in a duck boat accident on the Delaware River last month filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday against the tour operator, the city and others.
They blame the tour company for making the amphibious craft defenseless that scorching hot day, when the captain turned off the overheated engine with 35 passengers aboard and dropped anchor in a busy shipping channel...
Duck boat victims’ families hire attorney
By Melissa Dribben
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
July 16, 2010
MOSONMAGYAROVAR, Hungary ― Two New York lawyers, Peter and Holly Ronai , a husband and wife personal injury team with ties here, are representing the families of two local students who drowned in the July 7 Duck Boat accident.
The couple, whose office is in midtown Manhattan, arrived in Hungary July 2 for a vacation. They were in Budapest about to return home on July 8, when they received a call from Peter Schwendtner, whose daughter, Dora, died when the Duck Boat was hit a barge in the Delaware River, capsized, and sank.
A former client of the Ronai's referred the lawyer to the Schwendtner family, who then informed the family of the other victim, Szabolcs Prem, that Ronai was preparing legal action.
Ronai has been meeting with both families to discuss civil suits against those responsible for the collision of a 250-foot barge and the small sightseeing vessel, which pitched 37 people into the river.
"The families are devastated. They're completely devastated," Ronai said.
"There may be criminal proceedings as well," he said, "Dora's father wants the people responsible for this put in jail."
The parents of both students, he said, are "very let down."
In Hungary, Ronai said, America is often viewed as the most advanced and technologically capable country, a nation of laws and reason. His clients, he said, cannot fathom how such avoidable mistakes were made.
Ronai has family ties to the town where the students grew up and went to school. His parents, George and Susan, grew up in Budapest and escaped through Mosonmagyarovar over to Austria under harrowing circumstances during the 1956 revolution. By coincidence, on Thursday - the day after the duck Boat tragedy - they were scheduled to arrive for a visit to this town of 32,000, less than half an hour's drive from the borders of Austria and Slovakia, that was once part of the Hapsburg empire. Ronai's wife flew back alone last week, but he will be staying indefinitely to work with the victims' parents.
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