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A Delaware River and Bay Authority worker is seen looking over the two vehicles involved in a crash on board one of the Cape May-Lewes Ferry vessels at the Cape May terminal Friday morning.

(Special to the Times/DRBA)

NORTH CAPE MAY — Three people were taken to an area hospital after a driver hit his gas pedal instead of his brake causing a two-vehicle collision aboard one of the vessels in the Cape May-Lewes Ferry fleet Friday, officials said.

The accident took place about 9:40 a.m. on the MV Delaware as vehicles were disembarking at the Cape May ferry terminal, according to Jim Salmon,

a spokesman for the ferry’s operator, the Delaware River and Bay Authority.

Salmon said that Jeffery Singley of Fort Washington, Maryland, the driver of a white 2012 Ford Explorer rental vehicle that was parked on the port side of the ferry vessel is believed to have accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the brakes, causing the Explorer to run across car deck and broadside a silver Honda Civic on the starboard side of the ferry, pinning it against the ferry vessel’s starboard bulkhead.

The occupants of the 2013 Honda Civic, Diane Manville and Roger Level of Millsboro, Delaware, and Singley were transported to Cape Regional Medical Center by Lower Township EMS.

The vehicles were aboard the MV Delaware, which departed the Lewes, Delaware, Ferry Terminal at 8:15 a.m. Friday.

The MV Delaware sustained minor cosmetic damage crash, Salmon said. The ferry schedule was delayed for approximately one hour for the crash investigation and cleanup. The MV Cape Henlopen, another vessel in the ferry fleet, took over for the MV Delaware while the accident scene was cleared and cleaned up.

Responding to the accident were the Town Bank Fire Department, Villas Fire Department, Lower Township Police, Lower Township EMS, Villas Fire Department, and Delaware River and Bay Authority Police.

The accident remains under investigation by the DRBA Police Department, Salmon said.

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