Roughly 60 people were injured Wednesday morning, including a man who suffered a traumatic brain injury when he fell down some stairs, when a commuter ferry crashed into a pier on the Hudson River in lower Manhattan, according to The New York Times.
The accident involved a boat owned by Seastreak Ferry, which transports workers from the Atlantic Highlands area of the Jersey shore to Lower Manhattan, the Wall Street area. The ferry involved in the crash, the Seastreak Wall Street, can carry up to about 500 people, The Times reported. There were 356 passengers and five crew members on the ferry Wednesday.
This week’s accident harkened back to a horrendous crash in 2003, when a Staten Island Ferry hit a pier at full speed, killing 11 people and injuring 70 others, according to The Times.
Wednesday’s accident was under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
It was around 8:45 a.m. when the ferry, coming in to drop off passengers at Pier 11, suddenly hit the dock at 10 mph, “well above the pace of its typical crawl into the dock,” The Times wrote.
Many of the ferry’s 300 passengers went flying, with some falling down stairs, including the man who had severe head trauma when he hit his head in such a tumble, according to The Times. That man and another passenger were critically hurt, and nine others had serious injuries, The Times reported.