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NEW YORK — A Staten
Island ferry slammed into a pier
as it was docking Wednesday,
killing at least 10 people, tearing
off victims’ limbs and sending
passengers leaping into the
water, officials said. At least 34
people were injured.
The 310-foot ferry, carrying
about 1,500 passengers, plowed
into the enormous wooden pil
ings on the Staten Island end of
its run from Manhattan, reduc
ing the front of the mighty boat
to a mass of shattered planks,
broken glass and twisted steel.
The crash happened on a
windswept afternoon, with gusts
over 40 mph and the water in
New York Harbor very choppy.
“Everyone just jumped for
their lives,” rider Bob Carroll
told TV station NY1. “It was
like an absolute horror. ... The
whole side of the boat looked
like an opener on a can.”
The ship’s captain fled and
was tracked down by police at
his Staten Island home, said a
high-ranking police source,
speaking on condition of
anonymity. The ferry’s crew will
be interviewed and tested for
drugs and alcohol, Mayor
Michael Bloomberg said.
At least 10 people were
killed and 34 injured, the mayor
said, making it New York’s
worst mass-transit accident in at
least a generation. Some bodies
were accidentally counted
twice, leading to an initial report
by city officials that 14 people
were dead.
Firefighters picked their way
through the debris aboard the
ship, the Andrew J. Barberi,
looking for victims, and Coast
Guard divers searched the water.
At least one body was recovered
from the water.
The cause of the crash was
not immediately known,
although Bloomberg suggested
the heavy wind as a possibility.
The National Transportation
Safety Board convened an acci
dent investigation team, which
will look at the weather, among
other possible factors.
“The ferry was coming too
fast,” said witness William
Gonzalez, who lives in a nearby
apartment complex. “They had
no control to stop the boat.”
Commuters were trapped in
piles of debris aboard the 22-
year-old ferry, and victims
screamed and dove for cover as
metal crunched into wood just
before the start of the evening
rush hour, tearing girders, splin
tering planks and ripping a huge
hole in the right side of the
three-level, bright-orange ves
sel, which has a capacity of
6,000 passengers.
“People who were sitting
there as the ferry docked were
hit by the pilings that came
through the side of the boat," the
mayor said. The pilings hit on
the ferry’s main deck, crashing
into the windows that ordinarily
afford a postcard view of the
Statue of Liberty.
The five-mile trip between
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slammed into wooden pilings
along the side of a dock as it
arrived at the St. George Ferg
Terminal after crossing NewYoii
Harbor before the start of the
evening rush hour Wednesday
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ferry crashed
into dock; at
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mally takes 25 minutes. A fa
ride on the Staten Island Ferry
one of the city’s most beloved
attractions to New Yorkers and
tourists alike, giving visitors i
Holly wood-style view of
Manhattan's skyscrapers.
The seven boats that
the Staten Island Ferry
carry 70,000 commuters a day
between Staten Island and lower
Manhattan. The boats make KM
daily trips between the two bor
oughs. The Andrew J. Barben
travels at about 18 mph.
Service was suspended on all
Staten Island ferries after the
accident.
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the brisk performance registered
in July and August just couldn’t
be maintained in September;
they had forecast a sales dip of
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Excluding sales of automo
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0.3 percent — close to econo
mists’ forecast for a 0.4 percent
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way,” said Bill Cheney,
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sumers are still spending."
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ciently open since the 2001 reces
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