NEW YORK ~ Fire and police officials say between 30 to 50 people were injured when a ferry from New Jersey slammed into a dock during this morning's rush hour in lower Manhattan.
News reports say the Seastreak Wall Street catamaran ferry from Atlantic Highlands, N.J., banged into the mooring as it arrived. Officials say two people suffered critical injuries.
Some patients were carried out strapped to flat-board stretchers, their heads and necks immobilized. About a dozen passengers on stretchers were spread out on the dock, surrounded by emergency workers and firefighters.
According to Fox5Live 59 people were hurt, two with critical head injuries, when a commuter ferry hit a dock in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday morning. Passengers on the boat were sent flying as the boat violently crashed into the dock.
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