 Prestige dispatched a 2001 Ford Excursion expanded to seat the additional passengers.Unbeknownst to Steenburg or anyone in his group, the vehicle had failed two inspections earlier that year.The issues that had led to those failures included its brakes, and the state Department of Transportation (DOT) had ordered it to be taken out of service in September, with inspectors placing a sticker reading "unserviceable" across its windshield, but it had been removed before it was driven to Amsterdam.