A bystander tried to help — but she couldn't hang on (via toofab)
"The woman tried to hang on," West Palm Beach police spokesman Mike Jachles told"There was a bystander nearby who tried to help her, but tragically she fell five or six stories below where she died landing on concrete."
The bridge was closed to traffic for more than six hours; an investigation is now underway into how the tragedy occurred. "There is a bridge tender, and that bridge tender has certain safety protocols to follow, specific safety protocols," Jachles said,"that includes lowering of the gates for the vehicles, lowering of the gates for the pedestrians, and making several visual confirmations that there is nobody at either of the spans or past those gates."
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