No less than one particular person was killed and several other others injured when a ship collided with a ferry close to Clearwater, Florida, officers mentioned Sunday night time. The precise variety of accidents was not instantly identified, however the fireplace division declared it a mass casualty incident, the Clearwater Police Division mentioned.
Six individuals had been declared “trauma alerts,” the town of Clearwater mentioned, and two of those that had been “extra severely injured” had been taken away by helicopter, police mentioned.
Based on police, a Clearwater Ferry carrying 45 individuals, together with two crew members, was hit by one other boat, which fled the scene of the crash. The opposite boat, a personal leisure vessel that was carrying six individuals, has been recognized, the Coast Guard mentioned.
Regulation enforcement examine the wreckage of a Clearwater Ferry after a ship crashed into the ferry.
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The ferry “got here to relaxation on a sandbar simply south of the Memorial Causeway bridge,” police mentioned. All of the passengers, together with those that had been injured, have been taken off the ferry.
The Clearwater Memorial Causeway bridge connects Clearwater and Clearwater Seashore.
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Jordan Freiman