8 Hospitalized, 2 Critically Injured, When Boat Hits Rocks In Woodbridge, N.J.

WOODBRIDGE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- Eight people were injured, and two of them were critically injured, when a boat crashed into rocks in Woodbridge, New Jersey Sunday.

New Jersey State Police were called to 1 Ferry St. in Woodbridge at 5:41 p.m. for the accident in the Arthur Kill Channel.

Police said the boat with eight people onboard ran into the rocks. Five suffered injuries, and two of them were critically injured, police said.

A witness said he heard a loud crash and then saw the injured passengers lying on the deck.

"They all were hurt from it, because he hit it pretty hard - and once he hit it, it just stopped," he said. "They were knocked out and stuff it was a pretty bad thing."

One of the victims had to be taken by medevac helicopter, state police said.

All eight people on the boat were taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Rahway.

In an unrelated incident Sunday several miles away in the Shrewsbury River, a boat with 10 people onboard caught fire. No one was injured in that incident.