A 72-year-old man riding his bicycle across the Hallandale Beach Boulevard Bridge on Sunday fell into the water below when the bridge started rising, authorities said.
After Hallandale Beach Police received a call about a person who fell off the bridge, they spoke to the operator, who said she had last raised the bridge at around 9:15 p.m. but did not hear or see anyone falling.
But video from a passerby captured the shocking moment the man fell from the bridge.
Authorities started searching the waterway, and an officer spoke to a witness “who provided a cell phone video displaying a person on a bicycle falling from the north and eastern portion of the bridge as it was being raised,” an incident report details.
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The Broward Sheriff’s Office Department of Fire Rescue then found a bicycle in the water behind the nearby Hyde Hotel.
Later, they found the victim “lying in a fetal position on a floating jet ski ramp next to a Hyde Hotel dock,” the incident report adds.
He was conscious, and told authorities he had fallen off the bridge. The victim was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.
It was not immediately clear why the man was on the bridge as it was being raised.
