Caught on Camera

72-year-old man on bike falls off rising drawbridge in Hollywood: Police

The Broward Sheriff’s Office Department of Fire Rescue first found a bicycle in the water behind the Hyde Hotel

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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. 

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.

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