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New York Ferry Crash: Up To 50 Injured
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Posted on 01/09/2013 7:50:33 AM PST by Sub-Driver

New York Ferry Crash: Up To 50 Injured

3:30pm UK, Wednesday 09 January 2013

A commuter ferry has crashed into the dockside in Lower Manhattan in New York, injuring between 30 and 50 people.

The Sea Streak Ferry, which provides daily services from Atlantic Highlands in New Jersey struck Pier 11 in the East River not far from Wall Street at about 8.45am ET (1.45pm GMT).

Officials say at least one of the passengers was in a critical condition with head injuries.

The vessel apparently had a hard landing as it was trying to dock.

"There was a jolt when that occurred, throwing the people forward into their seats and the walls," Sea Streak President James Barker told NBC 4 New York.

Passenger Ellen Foran said people tumbled on top of each other, hysterical and crying.

"All of a sudden, the boat felt like it smashed into a wall," Richard Correra told WCBS-TV.

"Dozens of passengers got thrown out of their seats, got thrown forward," he said.

"Some were heading downstairs and just flew down the stairs and hit their heads on various poles and walls."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey; US: New York
KEYWORDS: assaultferries; ferry; nyc; seastreakferry; semiautoferries; timetobanferries
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To: OrangeHoof

You forgot lighting a cigarette, putting on mascara (Hey, it’s New York), & changing the station on the radio.

I like ferries. As long as they’re short & I’m not the first car.


21 posted on 01/09/2013 8:36:57 AM PST by KGeorge
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To: Sub-Driver

They should limit ferries to 10 seats....to avoid mass casualties.


22 posted on 01/09/2013 8:47:21 AM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Portcall24

Or for stricter fairy regulation in the least. After all, “we have to do something!” And we have to do it immediately so that this tragedy doesn’t lose momentum. Think of all those poor docks. It’s for the docks. Never let a fairy crises go to waste. How many more fairies have to suffer before America wakes up and puts and end to it? (Now we’re just being bad aren’t we?)

Share the lead.


23 posted on 01/09/2013 8:52:52 AM PST by rktman
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To: Sub-Driver

What if you had jumped up just as the boat impacted the dock? Would you feel it?


24 posted on 01/09/2013 8:54:48 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: TomGuy

Chinese or Russian sub?


25 posted on 01/09/2013 8:56:05 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Well, it’s clear from the photos that there were no unusual seas and no high wind. The ferry looks like one of those double hulled planing boats. They are fast and efficient going forward at full speed, but hard to maneuver.

Still, sounds like a screw-up of some kind. The helmsman must have done something wrong. Got a bit off course and decided not to back off and try all over again, or something like that.


26 posted on 01/09/2013 9:09:13 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

I just checked the map. It looks like that ferry was doing runs of about 20 miles each way to and from the Jersey Highlands. There are similar boats in Milwaukee, WI that cross Lake Michigan to Muskegon, MI in about 2.5 hr. for the 78 mi. run. Such boats really move, often at over 30 mph. Taking the Jersey ferry would be a good way to avoid the hassels of surface travel. I bet it’s a bit pricey.


27 posted on 01/09/2013 9:24:29 AM PST by libstripper
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To: TomGuy

And the ferry companies can, no doubt, not afford black boxes, so there will have to be millions in federal grants to allow for the equipment to be available and installed. And not just on ferries.... as you said, ALL floatation vessels need this immediately.

That said, prayers for anyone hurt in this accident.


28 posted on 01/09/2013 9:29:14 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: rktman

Sometimes we do need to do something:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_General_Slocum#The_disaster


29 posted on 01/09/2013 9:30:06 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Obama: Brought to you by the letter "O" and the number 16 trillion.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
What if you had jumped up just as the boat impacted the dock? Would you feel it?

It depends. Galileo had the answer, of course. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_relativity

30 posted on 01/09/2013 9:35:04 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Obama: Brought to you by the letter "O" and the number 16 trillion.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Time to BAN Ferry’s (of all kinds!).


31 posted on 01/09/2013 9:38:02 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: stuartcr
"I think the ferries are ok, we need to get to the root cause and ban docks."

Indeed!

HA!

32 posted on 01/09/2013 9:50:34 AM PST by hummingbird
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To: TomGuy
"We need Congressional action NOW! All floatation vehicles MUST be equipped with black boxes IMMEDIATELY."

Put Biden on this right away! We need commissions, etc!

33 posted on 01/09/2013 9:52:10 AM PST by hummingbird
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
"What if you had jumped up just as the boat impacted the dock? Would you feel it?

It depends. Galileo had the answer, of course. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_relativity"

Would it matter if you were holding a feather at the same time you jumped?

34 posted on 01/09/2013 9:55:28 AM PST by hummingbird
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To: George from New England
Warning: Traffic jam of limos as lawyers rush to scene to find and make victims. If you were on the ferry period, you are a victim and will live big from now on.

I enjoy watching the old black and white movies, and especially the silent ones - not for the stories so much but for the background scenery which was taken for granted back then (ads, prices of goods, long-gone buildings, sail ships, etc.)

I remember laughing at loud at a city scene when a Model T knocks a pedestrian down. The guy gets up, shakes his fist at the driver, and walks off. I thought that nowadays, a scene like you describe would occur over the same accident.

35 posted on 01/09/2013 10:00:28 AM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: paul51

15 is too many!

Ferries should have only 8 fixed, non living, non injurable passengers, and “passenger buttons” that allow the addition of passengers should be banned.


36 posted on 01/09/2013 10:01:10 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: hummingbird

Daedalus had the answer to that question:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus


37 posted on 01/09/2013 10:08:17 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Obama: Brought to you by the letter "O" and the number 16 trillion.)
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To: editor-surveyor

They are presently checking to see if any of the crew are members of the NRA.

Sea Streak is pretty good. I took it one year when I worked in the city. Expensive as heck, but a relaxing ride.


38 posted on 01/09/2013 10:11:33 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Want freedom? Think WWRRD? Then do it.)
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To: Sub-Driver

If the helmsman is a young person, my guess is texting is to blame. If the person was a senior citizen, could be they hit forward throttle rather than reverse.


39 posted on 01/09/2013 10:43:15 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: libstripper

I had an apartment down on the battery for several years, and you could see those high-speed ferries zipping up the bay. Yes, they’re really fast and convenient, but they don’t maneuver well when they come down off a plane. Probably this guy was running a few minutes late, made a bad approach, and decided to gun it around into the dock rather than back off and try again—which would annoy the passengers and be an admission of error.

So he made a much bigger error. That’s my guess.


40 posted on 01/09/2013 11:11:14 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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