10 Die as Staten Island Ferry Slams Into Pier

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/16/nyregion/16FERR.html?hp

"It then missed its pier and slammed into the maintenance pier. Passengers compared what ensued to a scene from "Titanic." They said there was an ominous grinding sound followed by a bang, like an explosion. Then the pier, like an iceberg, sheared into the side of the main deck, tearing it open. With no announcements or instructions by the boat's crew, passengers began fleeing in confusion and panic.

"The beams are coming directly at you, and the side of the boat is disappearing," said Robert Carroll, a lawyer for the state court system, who was on board. "They're ripping up steel, glass, chairs. People were falling. At one point I was in a pile, and I just got up and kept running. It kept coming and coming. If you didn't keep running, you were dead.""

At first, I thought people had fallen overboard but this was particularly grisly. The pilot went home and tried to commit suicide. This dominated the local news tonight.

Discussion here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=168028&mesg_id=168028

I did look, but not far enough back.