New York City firefighters remove an injured passenger from the Seastreak Wall Street ferry in New York after a hard landing at the pier left 50 people injured. Source: AP
A COMMUTER ferry from New Jersey crashed into a dock in lower Manhattan during morning rush hour, injuring at least 50 people, at least two critically, officials and witnesses said.
Passengers aboard the vessel, the Seastreak Wall Street, said scores of people who had been standing waiting to disembark were hurled to the deck by the impact.
"We were pulling into the dock. The boat hit the dock. We just tumbled on top of each other. I got thrown into everybody else. ... People were hysterical, crying," said Ellen Foran, 57, of Neptune City, New Jersey.
The accident, which ripped open part the boat's hull like a tin can, happened at 8.45am local time (11.45pm AEDT) at a pier near the South Street Seaport, at Manhattan's southern tip.
Firefighters were still carrying people away on flat-board stretchers an hour after the crash.
Firefighters rush an injured commuter to an ambulance after an early morning ferry accident during Manhattan rush hour.
Passenger Frank McLaughlin, 46, whose home was filled with 1.5 metres of water in the storm, said he was thrown forward and wrenched his knee in the impact.
Other passengers were bloodied when they banged into walls and toppled to the floor, he said.
Dee Wertz, who was on shore, waiting for the ferry, saw the impact.
A screen grab from WNYW's coverage of a ferry accident in lower Manhattan shows people being treated on the pier.
"It was coming in a little wobbly," she said.
"It hit the right side of the boat on the dock hard, like a bomb."
After the impact, the boat was able to dock normally. Ms Wertz said passengers raced off the ferry once the ramp was down.
"I think people just wanted to get the heck off the boat as soon as they could," she said.
An injured passenger of the Seastreak Wall Street ferry is aided by New York City firefighters. Two people are in critical condition and around 50 more injured.
Ferries are a fairly common way to commute to work in Manhattan, an island separated from New Jersey and the rest of New York City by rivers.
This frame grab taken from WABC News Channel 7 aerial video shows damage to the commuter ferry in Lower Manhattan after it made a hard landing at the dock.
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