Man threatening suicide badly injured after leaping from Palm Bay Road
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For the second time in a day, a portion of Interstate 95 in Brevard County was shut down Wednesday, this time after a person threatened to leap from a Palm Bay overpass into oncoming visitors.
Palm Bay police mentioned they stopped visitors minutes earlier than the person jumped from the overpass to the pavement beneath, struggling a number of accidents as a number of witnesses, together with youngsters on a college bus, watched.
The man was taken to Holmes Regional Medical Center, the place he was listed in vital situation. The roadway reopened a short while later.
The incident in unfolded about 3 p.m., when police have been known as to research reviews of a person sitting alongside the Palm Bay Road overpass that crosses east-west over the interstate. Police additionally briefly blocked visitors within the southbound lanes of I-95 as officers tried to speak with the unidentified man, believed to be in his 40s.
“We are at the moment investigating the circumstances surrounding this tragic incident,” mentioned Lt. Virginia Kilmer, spokesperson for the Palm Bay Police Department.
It was the second time the freeway, a serious visitors artery, was shut down Wednesday, leaving motorists sitting in bumper-to-bumper visitors.
The first closure occurred as Florida Highway Patrol troopers responded to a rental automobile hearth producing intense smoke and flames. That incident occured round 9 a.m. between State Road 518 and the Pineda Causeway, pausing visitors for morning commuters as firefighters labored to battle the car blaze. The interstate was shut down for practically half-hour.
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Police advocate that residents who could also be feeling despondent name the 988 Suicide Prevention Hotline, available 24 hours a day.
J.D. Gallop is a prison justice/breaking information reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Gallop at 321-917-4641 or [email protected]. X, previously referred to as Twitter: @JDGallop.
