2nd Victim In Open-Top Bus Accident In D.C. Dies

In some parts of downtown, open-top double-decker buses are discouraged from traveling along certain corridors because of low-lying infrastructure, he said.

Open Top Sightseeing is best known for operating hop-on, hop-off double-decker buses in Washington and San Francisco. Its regular sightseeing route in Washington starts at Union Station and makes 24 stops in Chinatown, Adams Morgan, Georgetown, Arlington National Cemetery, near the White House and elsewhere, according to the company's Web site. Tickets also are sold on the Martz Gray Line of Washington Web site.

A woman who answered the phone yesterday afternoon at Open Top's office on Tuxedo Road in Tuxedo called the incident "a horrendous accident, an isolated accident."

"We are absolutely terribly, terribly, of course, devastated by this incident," said the woman, who declined to identify herself, other than to say she was an Open Top employee. "We will in the future, of course, be issuing a comment to the media. But at this point in time we have no comment because it's too soon after the accident and the police and everything is going on and we don't really know anything at this point to release anything to the media."

The woman said no company executive was available for comment.

Staff writers Martin Weil, Clarence Williams and Steve Yanda contributed to this report.