The Clearwater Police Department posted on X that there were multiple injuries and the crash had been declared “a mass casualty incident” by the Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department due to the number of injuries. All of those injured were aboard the ferry, which was carrying more than 40 people.

One person died and multiple people were injured in Clearwater, Florida, when a boat struck a ferry with dozens of people on board and then fled the scene, police authorities said. The hit-and-run occurred just off the Memorial Causeway bridge before 10 p.

A ferry ushering families from a popular sand sculpting competition in Florida was struck by a recreational boat in an apparent hit-and-run – killing one ferry passenger and injuring several others, police and witnesses said.