Woman cited for riding bike onto bridge as it was lifted

It's the video that has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, a woman on a bike, ignores the safety gates on the Racine Street bridge in Menasha, as the bridge is being lifted for boats to pass below. The woman ends up falling into one of the open seams of the bridge. Many are asking how this could happen? And why it took so long for help to arrive?

The Racine Street bridge is a popular thoroughfare in Menasha. And on the night of July 4th, it was especially busy as the city's fireworks ended and people were heading home. But, as the bridge tender dropped the warning arms and started to lift the bridge, a 37 year old Menasha woman on a bicycle ignored those warnings.

According to Deputy Chief Brett Halderson from the Menasha Police Department, "She went through them, she ended up being unstable, went into the gap between the drawbridge and the rest of the bridge."