First responders and semitruck drivers teamed up over the weekend to help prevent a man threatening to take his own life from jumping off a bridge in Oklahoma.Officials with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol shared a photo taken by Tif'Anee Sobrado. In the photo, semitrucks can be seen lined up under a bridge where a man was threatening to jump.Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers shut down Interstate 44 for about four hours Saturday and asked truck drivers to park under the bridge in case the man jumped, shortening the distance of a potential fall from 10 to 12 feet instead of all the way to the road.Police talked the man off the bridge.

First responders and semitruck drivers teamed up over the weekend to help prevent a man threatening to take his own life from jumping off a bridge in Oklahoma.

Officials with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol shared a photo taken by Tif'Anee Sobrado. In the photo, semitrucks can be seen lined up under a bridge where a man was threatening to jump.


Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers shut down Interstate 44 for about four hours Saturday and asked truck drivers to park under the bridge in case the man jumped, shortening the distance of a potential fall from 10 to 12 feet instead of all the way to the road.

Police talked the man off the bridge.

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