Two motorcyclists were hospitalized over the weekend after striking a six-foot alligator on a Florida highway ... the former noticed a "big blob in the road." "I thought it was a semi-tire ...

A Florida Highway Patrol spokesperson tells PEOPLE the ... riders narrowly avoiding the gator in the middle of the road as well as an image of the bloodied animal on the asphalt.

With views of Florida ... “Highway of Mirrors,” according to Pigeon Key history, because cars passed so close to one another that their side mirrors were knocked off, littering the road.

An alligator put two bikers in the hospital when it crawled onto traffic on Interstate 4 near Orange City, Florida, the Florida Highway Patrol ... Gilmore “suffered road rash and some broken ...