1 Dead, Multiple Injured After Boat Crashes Into Ferry in Florida

Investigators search the wreckage of a Clearwater Ferry after a boat crashed into the ferry causing multiple injuries near the Clearwater Memorial Causeway Bridge, in Clearwater, Fla., on Sunday, April 27, 2025. Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP

CLEARWATER, Fla.—One person has died and several were injured Sunday when a boat crashed into a ferry off the Memorial Causeway Bridge and then fled the scene, authorities said.

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.