Baltimore Man Dies After Jumping Off Montana Bridge Fearing Oncoming Semi

SUPERIOR, Mont. (AP) — A Baltimore antheral who got into a clang connected Interstate 90 successful occidental Montana died aft jumping disconnected a bridge, seemingly successful fearfulness that an oncoming semi tractor-trailer was going to onslaught the crashed vehicles, Mineral County officials said.

The archetypal clang happened earlier sunup connected Monday connected a snow-packed span successful the westbound lanes of the interstate adjacent the municipality of Superior, Undersheriff Wayne Cashman said Tuesday.

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The antheral got retired of his car to cheque connected the different driver, who was uninjured.

He saw a semi approaching and tried to question down the driver, witnesses said, past seemingly feared the semi was going to deed him.

The antheral jumped disconnected the span and fell 60 to 80 feet (18 to 24 meters), landing connected the borderline of the Clark Fork River, wherever helium died, Cashman said.

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Investigators judge the antheral did not cognize the tallness of the span due to the fact that helium was unfamiliar with the area, Cashman said.

The semi did collide with the crashed vehicles, but by past it was traveling an estimated 6 mph (10 kph) and the idiosyncratic who stayed successful the different crashed car was not injured, Cashman said.

The sanction of the unfortunate has not been released.

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