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 stated Sunday night time. The precise variety of accidents was not instantly recognized, however the fireplace division declared it a mass casualty incident, the Clearwater Police Division stated.
Six individuals had been declared “trauma alerts,” the town of Clearwater stated, and two of those that had been “more seriously injured” had been taken away by helicopter, police stated.
In keeping with 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 non-public leisure vessel that was carrying six individuals, has been recognized, the Coast Guard stated.
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The ferry “came to rest on a sandbar just south of the Memorial Causeway bridge,” police stated. 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 Seaside.
