OKEECHOBEE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A 25-year-old Palm Beach man was rescued from a creek by Okeechobee County Fire Rescue firefighters after he was struck by a vehicle and thrown approximately 15 feet off a Florida Turnpike bridge.
OCFR says crews responded around 3:45 a.m. on Nov. 10 to northbound mile marker 182 following a report of a man stranded in the water. The man was involved in a single-vehicle crash and was checking on his vehicle when another vehicle hit him and threw him from the bridge and into the creek.
When he was rescued, firefighters found him clinging to a small island about 100 yards from the bank. Crews lowered a backboard towards the man and fed it out until he could grab hold. Despite darkness and high-water levels due to recent rainfall, the man was pulled to safety…