Police said the boat fled the scene following the crash on Sunday, April 27 One person has been killed and multiple others are seriously injured following a boat crash in Florida. A boat struck a Clearwater Ferry carrying over 40 people near the Memorial Causeway bridge in Clearwater before leaving the scene at around 8:40 p.

One person died and several others were injured, including a heavily pregnant woman, after a boat ploughed into a ferry carrying 45 people near Clearwater’s Memorial Causeway Bridge in Florida, police said.

Police and fire crews were responding to a boat crash that injured several people near Clearwater, Florida. The exact number of injuries was not immediately known, but the fire department declared it a mass casualty incident, the Clearwater Police Department said.