Several people hurt when boat collides with docked vessel in North Miami waterway, officials say
Five people were taken to the hospital after a boat crash at North Miami Beach on Saturday evening, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue confirmed.
At about 8 pm. in the Eastern Shores community, near NE 17th Street and 35 Avenue, MDFR crews, including air rescue, responded to a report of a capsized vessel.
Video from a nearby home shows a small boat colliding with a docked vessel along a canal. The crash caused the boat to flip over, sending several people into the water, MDFR said.
Divers were deployed in the water, and officials said all individuals on board the capsized vessel were accounted for on Saturday.
Gabriel Salauis, 53, a woman and three children were taken to an area hospital for treatment.
Bram Fiebelkorn described what happened after the crash to CBS News Miami, saying that the waterway can be dangerous.
"The whole boat came out of the air, flipped and went capsized back out of the water, and we immediately started seeing people pop out of the water — they must have been ejected when the boat capsized," he said. "And so my neighbor and I jumped into action. We started throwing out flotation devices because we saw kids that were floating in the water."
Authorities are still working to determine the cause of the crash, and no further details have been released.
This remains an active investigation.
