The personal watercraft crash that killed a 13-year-old girl and seriously injured her sister in Fort Lauderdale Tuesday happened during a guided tour, according to investigators.
Rachel Aliza Nisanov, 13, and Aviva Bracha Nisanov, 16, were riding tandem on a personal watercraft in the Intracoastal Waterway near the 2800 block of Northeast 24th Court in Fort Lauderdale when they smashed into a concrete dock around 3:30 p.m., according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the state police agency investigating the accident.
The girls jumped the wake of a passing vessel and lost control of their watercraft and hit the dock, Arielle Callender, an FWC spokeswoman, said Wednesday…