The woman was walking her bicycle across Royal Park Bridge in West Palm Beach, when it suddenly started to rise out of no where. She happened to be just about 10 feet away from the end of the bridge. When she was at the end of the bridge, she slipped through the opening in the road. Unfortunately, a witness who attempted to help her was not successful. She just couldn't hang on. “The woman tried to hang on,”West Palm Beach authorities spokesman Mike Jachles told a new outlet. “There was a bystander nearby who tried to help her, but tragically she fell five or six stories below where she landed on the concrete.” The bridge was immediately closed to traffic for more than six hours. There will be an investigation that will take place. “There is a bridge tender, and that bridge tender has certain safety protocols to follow, specific safety protocols, authorities said, “that includes

lowering of the gates for the vehicles, lowering of the gates for the pedestrians, and making several visual confirmations that there is nobody at either of the spans or past those gates.” A Bicycle safety advocate whose name is Juan Orellana, told a news outlet, out of the three bridges;this particular bridge is used the most by cyclists. He shared that it is equipped with barriers and also alarms that alerts crossers that the bridge is about to rise. “For one thing you will hear the bell even before the arms go down, so when you hear the bell you gotta get out of the way before the bridge goes up," he explained. Investigators are reviewing the security footage. It has to be determined if the woman ignored the safety warnings or was she already on the bridge when the alarms went off. Authorities said that she was almost across when the bridge went up.