JohnHKart
11-09-05, 07:24 PM
I am not making fun of this at all. It's just that I can't understand it. Because if you are walking on a freeway, there is either a solid ground next to the freeway, or a soundwall. But if you get on a bridge....it's usually pretty obvious that is what it is...especially if you just drove over it then walk back towards it. Of course there is nothing underneath it to walk on!!!! Even if it was dark you should still have been able to figured it out.
John
Los Angeles Times
Woman Dies in Fall From O.C. Bridge
By Susana Enriquez, Times Staff Writer
A woman plunged 75 feet to her death Sunday when she stopped on a bridge to pick up belongings that had fallen out of her truck earlier that day.
Jennifer Lee Hashimoto, 35, and a friend were moving her belongings from Rancho Santa Margarita to Irvine. She was driving west on Santa Margarita Parkway in Rancho Santa Margarita about 7 p.m. when she spotted her items, said Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
Hashimoto and her friend parked the truck in the left-turn lane to Alicia Parkway and started walking in the fast lane, he said.
Looking for a safer place to walk, Hashimoto jumped over the guardrail and fell into the dry bed of Trabuco Creek. Her friend, who was behind her, called for help when Hashimoto disappeared.
Hashimoto was pronounced dead at the scene.
"It was a tragic accident," Amormino said. "She thought there was solid ground on the other side."
She was probably not able to see the drop, he said, because it was dark and the area is poorly lighted
John
Los Angeles Times
Woman Dies in Fall From O.C. Bridge
By Susana Enriquez, Times Staff Writer
A woman plunged 75 feet to her death Sunday when she stopped on a bridge to pick up belongings that had fallen out of her truck earlier that day.
Jennifer Lee Hashimoto, 35, and a friend were moving her belongings from Rancho Santa Margarita to Irvine. She was driving west on Santa Margarita Parkway in Rancho Santa Margarita about 7 p.m. when she spotted her items, said Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
Hashimoto and her friend parked the truck in the left-turn lane to Alicia Parkway and started walking in the fast lane, he said.
Looking for a safer place to walk, Hashimoto jumped over the guardrail and fell into the dry bed of Trabuco Creek. Her friend, who was behind her, called for help when Hashimoto disappeared.
Hashimoto was pronounced dead at the scene.
"It was a tragic accident," Amormino said. "She thought there was solid ground on the other side."
She was probably not able to see the drop, he said, because it was dark and the area is poorly lighted