A man who fled in the vehicle that caused another car to crash into a Florida daycare centre, killing a 4-year-old girl and injuring more than a dozen others, turned himself in to authorities last night.

A girl has been killed and 14 others, at least a dozen of them children, injured, after a car smashed into a Florida day-care centre following a chain-reaction crash.

A STATEN ISLAND ferry pilot may have fallen asleep just before his ship slammed into a pier killing 10 people and injuring at least 42 others in New York harbour, police said yesterday.

A Staten Island ferry pilot may have fallen asleep just before his ship slammed into a pier killing 10 people and injuring at least 42 others in New York harbour, police said today.

The pilot responsible for docking a New York harbour ferry that slammed into a pier, killing at least 10 people and injuring 42 others, fled the scene immediately after the crash and then attempted suicide, a police official said today.