{"id":202673,"date":"2026-03-23T17:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202673\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:13:09","slug":"witnesses-describe-crash-into-river-injuring-2-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202673\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses describe crash into river injuring 2 in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 23, 2026 at 12:49 PM<\/p>\n<p>2 injured after van ends up in water in Fort Lauderdale <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Witnesses said on Monday that their quiet vacation at a motorcoach and yachting resort in Fort Lauderdale turned into chaos in seconds after a man and woman had to be rescued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/22\/2-rescued-after-van-crashes-into-water-in-fort-lauderdale-community\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/22\/2-rescued-after-van-crashes-into-water-in-fort-lauderdale-community\/\">on Sunday night<\/a>. The driver of a van crashed through the Yacht Haven Park &amp; Marina\u2019s gate at 2323 West State Road 84.\u201cAll of a sudden \u2018BOOM!\u2019 Right through the gate, blew it to pieces,\u201d Liam Lenihan told Local 10 News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/22\/2-rescued-after-van-crashes-into-water-in-fort-lauderdale-community\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/22\/2-rescued-after-van-crashes-into-water-in-fort-lauderdale-community\/\">on Sunday night<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A witness said the van went between two marina pilings and plowed into the South Fork New River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey drove into the back, drove into the water, the guy got rescued out of the car, and they started CPR on him,\u201d Lenihan said. \u201cAnd then the girl, she didn\u2019t get pulled out until 15 to 20 minutes later.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Aninta Taylor said she saw the woman\u2019s rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt was kind of disturbing,\u201d Taylor said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fire rescue personnel took the two to Broward Health Medical Center. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Location <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Isabella Martin\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/09e8bd89-5433-45a7-b775-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Isabella Martin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Isabella Martin joined the reporting team at WPLG in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 23, 2026 at 12:49 PM 2 injured after van ends up in water in Fort Lauderdale FORT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-202673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}