The bridge operator gave retiree Carol Wright 'a death sentence' by pushing the button that lifted the bridge while she was on it, a lawyer for her family said.
The attorney for Wright's family identified her as the victim at a press conference on Monday in which he called the bridge tender"negligent" and said that person did not do"the bare minimum" to check the bridge before raising it.
"When the bridge tender pushed that button to lift that bridge, that was basically giving Carol a slow mental and physical death sentence," attorney Lance Ivey said at the press conference Monday.Ivey said the family is contemplating legal action, but no lawsuit has been filed.Wright had visited a Palm Beach bookstore and was walking her bike across the bridge when it went up. She grabbed a railing and tried to hang on as the bridge span lifted, Ivey said.
“Unfortunately the bridge tender for whatever reason after activating the bridge lift didn’t hear her screams and didn’t look out the window,” Ivey said. “Again, she was there to be seen, and you push a button, it stops the whole episode and maybe Carol survives.”
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