Video: Motorcyclists hit 6-foot alligator on Florida interstate
Two motorcyclists reportedly suffered non-life-threatening injuries after colliding with an alligator on Interstate 4 in Volusia County. (WOFL)
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Two motorcyclists required hospitalization after hitting a six-foot alligator on a Florida highway over the weekend, the state Highway Patrol said.
According to Orlando FOX affiliate WOFL, which spoke exclusively with both bikers, the bizarre incident occurred Saturday at approximately 6 p.m. on Interstate 4 in Volusia County.
Two motorcyclists were injured after colliding with an alligator on a Florida highway. (iStock | Crystal Perez/Dee Hodson/via FOX 35 Orlando)
Cameron Gilmore, 67, who suffered a broken foot and toes in a collision with an alligator, told WFOL that he and Brandi Gross, 25, were traveling in a large group when he noticed a “big blob in the road.”
“I thought it was half a tire that had come off the tread or something,” Gilmore said.
(Crystal Perez/Dee Hodson/via FOX 35 Orlando)
However, the “drop” in this case was not a car tire, but an alligator that threw him off his motorcycle after a collision.
“I said, 'Help me, Jesus,'” Gilmore told WOFL.
“And I, um, just kept tumbling. I was like, when is this going to stop?” He added: “And then I started sliding, and I was like, when is this going to stop? Just sliding and sliding, and then it went off the road into the grass and, um, couldn't move properly.”
Gross, who was driving immediately behind Gilmore, met a similar fate.
“I just saw something, and by the time I realized what it was, it was too late,” she told the station. “I was like, 'Oh, shit, you know?' and it just, it hit. I flipped over, and I just didn't expect the alligator to be right in the middle of the road.”
The extent of the alligator's injuries is unknown at this time. (Crystal Perez/Dee Hodson/via FOX 35 Orlando)
Gross reportedly suffered a concussion and a broken wrist.
As for the alligator, the extent of its injuries has not yet been determined, and the circumstances of the incident are under investigation.
However, Gilmore and Gross remain optimistic despite their injuries.
“They call me Gator Gilmore, not the Floridian,” Gilmore remarked, before admitting that he, too, “is called the Floridian.”
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