Only in Florida!?

[Missouri Mule]

Monday morning heading back from the produce market On I-4 I see brake lights coming up ahead so turn up the radio, DJ from Tampa Station is warning drivers if they heading east to stay off I-4 someone jumped off overpass and was hit by vehilce(truck).

Customer who works secuity at college in Winter Park said she read it on the internet, but I can't find it and none of the Orlando new stations reported it. I"m sure it was on the news in Tampa it happend near Polk City. I believe the person jumped of the east side of the overpass but not sure. There was a wet spot on the highway in the right lane where they washed coolant or blood off the road.

Hope this doesn't become a trend!

Had a lady 10 years ago take a left from the east side of I-4 to the west side. Got hit by a semi and was killed. Troppers found a suicide note. That truck driver never drove again. Apparently the trucking company never offered him medical treatment (Mental).

 

[BlackBullit]

That's terribly sad!

 

[CRodi]

Not sure what it's like in the U.S, but on this side of the border, the media gives little or no coverage on suicides. I think they don't won't to encourage it. The only time it gets some coverage is when it's a murder/suicide. When the media briefly reports "no foul play suspected" I know it's a suicide.

Years a go, I was watching the news before going to work, and the TV reported a fellow employee being killed on the job in another part of the country, details to follow. I was expecting to get a briefing at the pre-shift safety talk at work(normal proceedure), but nothing was mentioned. When I got home, there was no mention in the media of what happened. I later found out that the employee had comitted suicde at work. It's as if that person had never existed.