Will David and Steve Lieberman

A 29-year-old Scarsdale man died Wednesday morning after jumping from the middle of the Tappan Zee Bridge and landing on a concrete structure near the Hudson River's surface, state police said.

Karl Peterson was driving north toward Rockland County, stopped his car and jumped at 5:18 a.m., when the New York State Thruway Authority communications center began getting calls. Authorities recovered his body about 5:40 a.m. and took it to an area near the Tarrytown Marina, state police in Tarrytown said.

Police did not provide an address for Peterson.

The Tarrytown Fire Department Marine Unit, the Westchester County police, and bridge construction employees worked with the state police.

The last person to die after jumping from the bridge was Cornell University student Denis Lukashkov, 20, of Mamaroneck, on Sept. 4. His body was pulled from the Hudson River near Dobbs Ferry several days later. The death was ruled a suicide.

There have been many incidents of people jumping from the span. Few survive. Authorities have sought ways to prevent jumpers, including adding hotline phones and raising the concrete walls along the outside barriers of the span.