One person is dead and several were injured Sunday when a boat crashed into a ferry off the Memorial Causeway bridge and fled the scene, according to the .

The department said there were multiple injuries and that the crash was declared a "mass casualty incident" by the fire department due to the number of injuries.

All of those injured were aboard the ferry, which was carrying more than 40 people, police said. Further information about the death was not provided.

Information about the boat that fled the scene was not immediately provided.

"All local hospitals have been notified. Multiple trauma alerts have been called with helicopters transporting two of the more seriously injured," police added.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will be handling the investigation.