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Woman plunges from BU Bridge, lands on Storrow Drive
By adamg on Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:21am
First responders looking down from BU Bridge. Photo by Rodney French.
Updated, 2:15 p.m.
Damian Drella reports:
BU Bridge over Storrrow Drive female just fell off the bridge down to storrrow serious injuries.emergency responders scrambling.
State Police report:
The 22-year-old woman suffered serious injuries. She was conscious and alert when transported to Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Whether the fall was accidental or intentional remains part of an ongoing State Police investigation.
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What? FELL? How does that
What? FELL? How does that even happen?
Snow piles
We have 4' of snow, piled up on top of 4' of snow. Even packed down snow piles are 6' high. Either she was up on the snowbank or walking on packed snow a couple of feet deep, which would put her above the railing, and lost her footing.
(assuming this wasn't an intentional act, of course)
That's what I was thinking
The railings on a lot of bridges are surprisingly low when you add in a few feet of poorly-shoveled snow. It's scary.
The BU bridge has wall over
The BU bridge has wall over Storrow which is shorter than than the railing over the river. the sidewalk there is not crowded out by the steel arch but there are still light poles obstructing the sidewalk.
That'd be very strange though.
I was over at BU yesterday, not on the bridge per se, and it's messy but not out of control--the sidewalks are shoveled and obviously there are tons of pedestrians (albeit in typical BU winter garb--either $1200 ply Sorel-and-Canada-Goose ensembles or chinos and canvas sneakers). I can't truly imagine any conditions where anyone would have been walking near the top of a railing. Nothing like 6 foot drifts anywhere.
might've been jogging
She was wearing running clothes; she might have been jogging.
Worst case scenario
I know this is bad to ask in light of the fact that there is a seriously injured person involved here, rendering everything else unimportant in the scheme of things, but...can anyone on the roads report what the traffic is like around Storrow now because of this? Since MGH was a nightmare yesterday, I can't imagine emergency responders were able to get to her easily, nor get her to a hospital without serious impediments. This IS the worst case scenario when your transportation system fails - gridlock and delay jeopardizes peoples safety AND costs people their lives.
The wording of this tweet would seem to support your theory
https://twitter.com/ENG1SFD/status/563006605072269314
I took the 57 earlier
Traffic on Comm Ave was moving just fine about a couple of hours ago; though I am sure Storrow is a nightmare. Traffic from BU to BIDMC/Brigham and Women's looks non-existent from my vantage point. Both Brookline Ave and Park Drive appear clear. I hope she gets to a hospital quickly and makes a full recovery.
Goddamned protesters!
I hope every one of the people blocking a lane preventing the EMS from reaching the scene get arrested and killed in jail.
Boston.com is only JUST reporting it now.
Boston.com took their heads out of the Patriots' butts long enough to realize that this happened, over an hour ago. Their "report" had very little information. I let them know that they'd been scooped by you guys. Who the heck runs 'breaking news' over there?
BU kids
BU kids
'Breaking news" on Boston.com? Ha. ....
...the thing is mostly automated now with rss feeds that pick up things from all over the internet with certain key words in them. Nobody but a computer is really running it.
The entire journalism profession
would be much better off if they just once and for all retired the phrase "Breaking News". It's so overused it's lost any real meaning.
Oh, and waiting until you actually have some content before you run some of these stories would really help as well.
I gave up on Boston.com
because nothing over there is even news. It's a bunch of lame human interest pieces stuck together with a few late news articles sandwiched in between.
If I want real news, I come here.
Scary
I was walking over the bridge earlier in the morning and actually thought to myself how easy it would be to accidentally fall over. The snow is packed so high in places that your waist is well above the railing.
Bridges too far...
...buried in the snowbanks for safety. VERY scary. I wonder if anything can be done...is there some kind of way to get this looked at and attended to? Some kind of markers or signs if the snow can't be cleared, which at this point probably has nowhere else to be put.
coincidence?
I got off the Pike at Allston - city was clearing snow off the pedestrian bridge over pike near the Pizzeria Regina.
Citizens Connect report submitted
Citizens Connect report submitted last night for that Cambridge St sidewalk. It is still closed to pedestrians due to the amount of weight the bridge can safely (or not safely, as it may be) handle. If it's closed to pedestrians, I can't imagine it's safe to bear the weight of thousands of pounds of snow. Definitely wouldn't want to take a chance driving under that every day and it's shocking that DPW or MassDOT didn't think of it on their own.