![]() ![]() More than 1,600 people are known to have committed suicide by jumping from that span since it opened in 1937. Wednesday's apparent suicide comes after recent action to approve funding for a suicide-prevention net on the Golden Gate Bridge. One other person is known to have jumped from the bridge, the paper reports - a woman who survived the fall with severe injuries. The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that the death is the first suicide from the new span, which opened last Labor Day. "He died as a result of the fall," Ferguson confirms. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Seven minutes had passed from the time (the) call came in to when the man jumped.Ī CHP boat conducting routine patrols was about a minute away from the incident officers in the boat pulled the man from the water and attempted to resuscitate him. "As soon as he saw the officer, he turned and jumped," Ferguson tells us. Knowing he didn't have much time to get there, the officer parked his patrol car in the center divide, jumped the concrete platform, and ran through several lanes of traffic to the shoulder where the man was, attempting to stop him from jumping, says Officer Mike Ferguson. An officer was on the eastbound portion of the bridge when the call came in. on reports of a possibly suicidal man standing on the westbound side of the new Bay Bridge. ![]() She was one of a number of people, apparently, who called 911 to report the incident. During her morning drive across the bridge to San Francisco, she told us, she saw the man near the railing on the north side of the span. One of those witnesses is an NPR producer who works out of KQED's office. SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - A search was underway for a driver who jumped off the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge after a multi-car crash that prompted the shutdown of westbound lanes for. In a tragedy apparently witnessed by a multitude of San Francisco-bound commuters Wednesday, an unidentified man pulled his car over on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge and jumped to his death. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) ( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge shortly before it opened last September.
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