2 girls transported after golf cart crash in Cape Coral

Two girls were transported to the hospital after a violent golf cart crash Wednesday morning along Southwest Sixth Avenue in Cape Coral.

It was a crash neighbor Nicholas Chamberlain could not get out of his head.

“I ran outside. I heard like screaming and crying and stuff, and first thing I was like, I was thinking that my little brother got hit by a car or something,” Chamberlain said, “so I was spooked, just adrenaline rushing, and my hands were shaking.”

Chamberlain heard what happened before he saw what happened, and what he saw scared him.

He said two girls he believes are 11 and 12 years old crashed a golf cart in his neighbor’s front yard.

“One of them was screaming like, ‘I think my arms aren’t so good. I can’t feel it,'” Chamberlain said. “One of them was just, I couldn’t see her because she was covered because the cart, the roof of the cart, was like on her head and stuff.”

Chamberlain said he and his dad lifted the golf cart off one of the girls and then helped them, along with other neighbors who rushed out as they waited for first responders to arrive.

But this is Southwest Sixth Avenue, a known cut-through between Skyline Boulevard and Nicholas Parkway West.

And yet, Chamberlain said kids ride golf carts here all the time.

“I’m mostly just kind of worried and confused,” he said. “Like, where were her parents? I think maybe her mom showed up. I heard her, and she was getting chewed out by the police and saying like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry. I’m sorry.'”

A new Florida law states it is illegal for anyone under the age of 15 without a learner’s permit or anyone without a driver’s license to drive a golf cart on the street.

There is no official word as to what caused the crash, as Cape Coral police said what happened remains under investigation.

The two girls were immediately transported to a hospital to get medical attention.