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Breaking News: Staten Island Ferry Crash
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Jen Chung
Published Oct 15, 2003
Modified Mar 6, 2008
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A Staten Island Ferry crashed into wood pilings at the ferry slip in Staten Island. So far, one death is reported and there are multiple injuries , including limb and leg amputations. People jumped from the ferry. According to NY1, all ferry service is suspend. One passenger told NY1:
I was sitting on the lower level on the left hand side when all of a sudden on the right hand side we hit the pilings. Everybody's screaming. The pilings protruded through the right hand side of the boat. Everybody jumped for their lives. The people on the right side of the boat, people were piling up, scrambling over each other. The whole side of the boat looked like a can opener opened. If I had been sitting on the right side of the boat, I'd have been dead. You could see some people were not going to make it. Some people clearly were not going to make it.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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