FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — 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 on Sunday night. The driver of a van crashed through the Yacht Haven Park & Marina’s gate at 2323 West State Road 84.“All of a sudden ‘BOOM!’ Right through the gate, blew it to pieces,” Liam Lenihan told Local 10 News on Sunday night.

A witness said the van went between two marina pilings and plowed into the South Fork New River.

“They drove into the back, drove into the water, the guy got rescued out of the car, and they started CPR on him,” Lenihan said. “And then the girl, she didn’t get pulled out until 15 to 20 minutes later.”

Aninta Taylor said she saw the woman’s rescue.

“It was kind of disturbing,” Taylor said.

Fire rescue personnel took the two to Broward Health Medical Center.

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‘It was kind of disturbing’: Witnesses describe crash into river injuring 2 in Fort Lauderdale

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