FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - Rail services have resumed after a sailboat was removed from under a Fort Lauderdale railroad bridge it had struck, sending one person to the hospital.
The sailboat struck the Florida East Coast Railway bridge over the New River around 4:30 p.m., Thursday.
Both train traffic on the FEC tracks and marine traffic on the river were stopped because of the collision.
This afternoon FLFR responded to a large sailboat that had hit the FEC railroad bridge on the New River. When the boat came in contact with the bridge, there was a man at the top of the mast. Miraculously he… https://t.co/XkzAlbw8p4
— FLFR PIO (@FLFR411) March 1, 2019
One person aboard the sailboat was transported to an area hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Just before 5 p.m., the bridge was back down and reopened to rail traffic. The sailboat has been removed.
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