MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla. – A retired paramedic who lives close to where a 36-year-old motorcyclist was killed Sunday said he heard the crash from his home and then rushed to the scene to help.
“I went to my truck and grabbed my first-aid kit,” Mark Lowell at the Melbourne Beach mobile home park said. “There were other cars that were stopping, but no one was actually accessing the patient.”
Lowell’s heroic efforts would be on surveillance from a Shell gas station at SR-A1A and Moonlight Drive.
Management shared the video with reporter James Sparvero, but because state troopers said the woman from Vero Beach driving the Harley Davidson died, News 6 decided not to show the collision.
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State troopers said she failed to slow down and hit a pickup truck.
The surveillance showed the pickup truck driver was coming to a stop in traffic.
Since the crash, one of Lowell’s neighbors wrote to News 6, raising concerns about the intersection.
“You really want to be on your toes crossing the highway here because you just never know what’s going to happen,” Lowell said.
With the gas station and mobile home communities on both sides of the highway, some people are hoping the Florida Department of Transportation will make changes.
“You could slow the speed down. You could put flashing lights for crosswalks, but you’ve got people that obviously follow the rules of the road or follow the rules of safety in their vehicles,” Lowell said.
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