FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — High speed and darkness were a dangerous combination just after midnight when a boat slammed into a rocky pier in Fort Lauderdale, WSVN reports.
The South Florida news station says several people on board the four-engine center console were seriously hurt. One woman was thrown from the boat and rushed to the hospital with traumatic injuries.
According to WPLG, the crash was at a fishing pier that sits on top of jetty extending into the Atlantic Ocean.
Florida Fish and Wildlife officers are investigating.
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