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CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — At slightest six radical were injured aft a vessel struck a ferry adjacent the Memorial Causeway Bridge and fled the country Sunday evening.
In an alert from the City of Clearwater, officials said the clang happened astatine 8:43 p.m. Clearwater police, on with Clearwater Fire & Rescue, responded to the country conscionable westbound of the bridge.
The clang appears to beryllium a hit-and-run connected the water, caused by a vessel that struck the Clearwater Ferry, constabulary said. The vessel reportedly near the scene, portion the ferry came to remainder connected a sandbar.
The occurrence section declared it a wide casualty incidental due to the fact that of the fig of radical progressive and severity of injuries. There were much than 40 radical aboard the ferry, constabulary said.
Police said 2 of the wounded were airlifted by chopper to adjacent hospitals.
First responders stitchery connected a formation adjacent wherever a vessel crashed into the ferry causing aggregate injuries adjacent the Clearwater Memorial Causeway Bridge, connected Sunday, April 27, 2025, successful Clearwater, Fla. (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP)It was the extremity of the 17-day Sugar Sand Festival connected Sunday nighttime and galore radical were taking the ferry backmost and distant for the festival, media reports said.
An ABC News affiliate cited Clearwater Mayor Bruce Rector to beryllium saying that the vessel that collided with the ferry was privately owned.
No further accusation is disposable astatine this time.
Reuters, The Associated Press contributed to this report.
