The 57-year old was walking her bicycle across the Royal Park Bridge when she fell six to ten feet to a concrete slab below. It's the same bridge where 79-year old Carol Wright fell to her death last year, but police say this time it appears to have been an accident.
A fisherman boating in the Intracoastal Waterway stayed on the phone with 911 from the moment he found a woman who fell 10 feet from the Royal Park Bridge until he took her to a nearby marina, describing the ordeal as something he’d never before seen in his decades of fishing.
A little over a year after 79-year-old Carol Wright fell to her death from the Royal Park Bridge in West Palm Beach, a woman fell Sunday night when the bridge opened beneath her as she was crossing with her bike, just like Wright did.
A 57-year-old woman was injured after she fell from the Royal Park Bridge as she was walking her bicycle across the span, according to West Palm Beach police.