Truckers pitch in to foil suicide attempt

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Todd Dills
Sep 23, 2009
Updated Dec 14, 2009

In Overdrive‘s home base of Tuscaloosa, Ala., yesterday, several truckers pitched in to help police foil a suicide attempt on the I-20/59 bridge over MacFarland Blvd. A nice gallery of pictures from the scene show, among other choice images, police unrolling an inflatable catch device atop two dry vans parked under the overpass.

Picture here courtesy Tuscaloosa News. Photo by Michael E. Palmer/Tuscaloosa News

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