ST. LOUIS • A 25-year-old man was in critical but stable condition Friday after jumping over a guard rail and falling onto Interstate 55 below in south St. Louis. He had been drinking prior to the incident, the man's friends told police.

The incident happened just after midnight on Friday on southbound 55 at the Utah Street overpass. The man and his friends were running across the overpass when the man jumped over the guard rail, police said. He hung from the guard rail and slipped onto the highway below, police said.