{"id":284651,"date":"2026-05-26T12:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284651\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:51:12","slug":"video-shows-boat-losing-control-crashing-into-crowded-fort-lauderdale-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284651\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows boat losing control, crashing into crowded Fort Lauderdale dock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A boat crash near a popular waterfront restaurant in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/fort-lauderdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Lauderdale<\/a> briefly disrupted dinner service Sunday evening, leaving two people with minor injuries, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened just before 8 p.m. near 15th Street Fisheries, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida<\/a> Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), which is leading the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/fort-lauderdale-police\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Lauderdale Police Department<\/a> and Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue also responded.<\/p>\n<p>FWC said two people were hurt but were able to walk away from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Video from a nearby EarthCam captured the moments leading up to the crash, showing a man departing from a dock before accelerating rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses described the boat&#8217;s speed as alarming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And he&#8217;s speeding like a crazy person,&#8221; said Steve Messier, who, along with Matthew Messier, had been at the restaurant minutes earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Video shows at least one person jumped from a boat to avoid the crash, while others in the area rushed to help.<\/p>\n<p>The Messiers returned to the marina area Monday and said they are still shaken by how close they were to being involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We feel lucky that we decided to leave 10 minutes earlier than the accident,&#8221; Steve Messier said.<\/p>\n<p>FWC officials said they will not release additional details about the operator or the cause of the crash until the investigation concludes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boat crash near a popular waterfront restaurant in Fort Lauderdale briefly disrupted dinner service Sunday evening, leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[20223,506,249,251,250,807],"class_list":["post-284651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-boat-accident","tag-broward-county","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284651","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=284651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}