Fire Crews Rescue Palm Beach Man Thrown Off Turnpike Bridge

Okeechobee County Fire Rescue — Firefighters Who Performed Bridge Rescue

Okeechobee County Fire Rescue said a 25-year-old Palm Beach man was rescued from a creek early Tuesday after a second vehicle struck him on a Florida Turnpike bridge, sending him about 15 feet into the water.

The man had been checking on his vehicle after a single-vehicle crash, according to Okeechobee County Fire Rescue, as reported by CBS12. Crews were called around 3:45 a.m. Nov. 10 to northbound mile marker 182 after a report of a man in the water…

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