A 65-year-old man is fighting for his life after a serious motorcycle crash on the Three Mile Bridge.
Dash camera footage moments before the crash shows the motorcyclist traveling at a high speed.
Ten seconds later, the driver of that motorcycle crashed into the concrete barrier next to the pedestrian pathway. He was thrown onto the walking path, leaving his bike on the bridge.
H stopped as soon as she saw the motorcycle on the ground with no driver.
“It’s a reflex, pretty much you just stop,” H said.
H has 20 years of experience in the medical field.
“I just went over there as quickly as I could, and they had already put a tourniquet on his leg,” H said. “One of the first things that you do is you just start looking at the body to see, ‘Ok, that’s taken care of. What’s next?'”
While H was keeping pressure on the driver’s head, M was helping to extinguish his burning bike several hundred feet away.
“ECUA was right behind me, so we ran to their truck to grab fire extinguishers and try to put out that fire from the motorcycle,” M said.
M didn’t see the crash but knew the motorcyclist had wrecked.
“He weaved in front of us to the point that I had to hit the brakes and then accelerated,” M said. “He was weaving in and out of everybody coming past everybody in the right emergency lane. It was a pretty high rate of speed by the time that we lost sight of him. It was probably less than 30 seconds later. We saw just a huge cloud of smoke.”
The Midway Fire District, Gulf Breeze Fire, Pensacola Fire Department, and Lifeguard EMS all responded.
The Gulf Breeze Police Department is investigating and said in a release:
The motorcycle rapidly accelerated and began traveling at a high rate of speed.
While the Pensacola Police Department did not respond, it is within their shared jurisdiction.
Chief Eric Winstrom spoke about the partnership to keep speeds down on the three-mile bridge.
“We’ve been working together with Gulf Breeze in partnership to create some, especially at nighttime submissions, where together we police both sides of the bridge,” Winstrom said.
He said the number of crashes due to speed has been up.
“Accidents at 14th and Gregory are up because of the speeding on the bridge, so working together doing these joint missions is important so that the culture around the bridge people starts talking about not speeding on the bridge,” Winstrom said. “If you’re not going to get stopped by Gulf Breeze on one side, you’ll get stopped by Pensacola on the other, so we’re both working together to hopefully send that message and get that done.”
The Gulf Breeze Police Department said the driver was taken to Ascension Sacred Heart for treatment. His condition is unknown at this time.
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