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Family wants answers in death of woman who plunged from West Palm Beach drawbridge

A bicyclist fell to her death on Feb. 6 on the Royal Park Bridge in West Palm Beach when the drawbridge connecting the city to Palm Beach began rising before she could reach the other side.
Meghan McCarthy
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The Palm Beach Post via AP
A bicyclist fell to her death on Feb. 6 on the Royal Park Bridge in West Palm Beach when the drawbridge connecting the city to Palm Beach began rising before she could reach the other side.

Carol Wright was halfway home from her 6-mile bicycle ride when the unthinkable happened: The crossing arms of a drawbridge came down behind her and the span of the bridge lifted, trapping the 79-year-old.

Wright, just some 20 feet from the staffed bridge-tender house, grabbed onto the railing, hanging on as long as she could. She died in a public and painful way,, slamming to the pavement six stories below.

And now, a lawyer representing the family wants more information about the tragedy, which remains under investigation.

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