Several injured in Florida ferry crash

Police and occurrence crews were responding to a vessel clang that injured respective radical adjacent Clearwater, Florida. The nonstop fig of injuries was not instantly known, but the occurrence section declared it a wide casualty incident, the Clearwater Police Department said.

At slightest 2 radical who were "more earnestly injured" were taken distant by helicopter, constabulary said. 

According to police, a Clearwater Ferry carrying much than 40 radical was successful a collision with different boat, which fled the country of the crash. All the radical who were injured were connected committee the ferry, which "came to remainder connected a sandbar conscionable southbound of the Memorial Causeway bridge," constabulary said.

The Coast Guard said it had been notified the different vessel was a recreational vehicle.

The Clearwater Memorial Causeway span connects Clearwater and Clearwater Beach. 

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