MIAMI (WSVN) - A woman was rushed to the hospital after she was injured when the bridge she was trying to cross in Brickell began opening.
City of Miami Police responded to the bridge in Miami early Saturday morning and quickly began a rescue operation.
Video, shared with 7News, shows the woman climbing the bridge as it begins to open. The video pauses right before she falls 100 feet to the ground.
Connor Walsh, a good Samaritan, saw the incident unfold.
“She was trying to climb up the bridge and she got halfway up, she was holding up to the side and then she just dropped,” he said.
Walsh added the woman was in shock from the fall.
“She was on the ground, kind of in shock but like rolling around,” said Walsh. “I was trying to tell her, to hold her down, but she was just in shock.”
Walsh and first responders helped the woman from the dangerous situation.
“He came up on the road here, stopped and then ran over, pulled out the tourniquet and we kind of tried to stop the bleeding and everything,” said Walsh. “Yeah, poor girl was going through it, because she wasn’t in a good mental state.”
7News cameras captured the operator of the bridge detailing what occurred to officers.
“I was standing there, on the intercom and there was a pedestrian here so they called it. It took them two minutes to understand that she has to go so then she went down,” he said. “Then I had another opening. I didn’t see her. After the opening, I see the police that she fell but I didn’t see her.”
Officers were able to get to the injured woman but during the rescue, officials said one officer suffered a laceration.
Both the woman and the officer were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital for treatment.
The woman is expected to be OK, despite her extensive injuries. The officer’s condition remains unclear.
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