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STATE POLICE. AT JUST AFTER 10:00 A.M., FIRST RESPONDERS SHUTDOWN ALL LANES OF 293 SOUTH NEAR EXIT ONE. STATE POLICE SAY A 40-YEAR-OLD MAN FROM MANCHESTER CLIMBED TH FENCING ON SOUTH WILLOW AND JUMPED. >> HE WAS TO THE RIGHT OF WHERE THE GUARDRAIL IS A REGULAR GUARDRAIL. HE WAS STANDING AT THAT CORNER. MIKE C ANOTHER WITNESS TELLS WMUR HE WAS DRIVING IN THE RIGHT LANE OF 293 AND SWERVED HIS TRACTOR TRAILER OUT OF THE WAY JUST BEFORE THE MAN LEAPT INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC >> THERE WAS A WHITE PICKUP TRUCK TRAVELING BEHIND THE TRACTOR-TRAILER THAT DID NOT HAVE AS MUCH TIME TO REACT. HE PUT THE BRAKES ON, AND WHEN THE SUBJECT JUMP, HE LANDED ON THAT VEHICLE. MIKE C: TROOPERS SAY THE MAN WAS ALSO HIT BY A SECOND VEHICLE, AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. >> MEDICAL PERSONNEL ATTEMPTED TO RENDER AID IN WERE NOT SUCCESSFUL. MIKE C: SOME OF THE WITNESSES SAID JUST MOMENTS BEFORE THEY SAW THE MAN NEAR THE FENCING ON SOUTH WILLOW BUT DIDN’T THINK THE WORST WOULD HAPPEN. >> A LIVE ON THIS CORNER AND WE SE TRANSIENTS ON THE TIME COLLECTING MONEY. WE THOUGHT HE WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE. MIKE C: INVESTIGATORS SAY THE DRIVERS INVOLVED IN TODAY’S INCIDENT WERE LUCKY TO ESCAPE WITHOUT INJURIES. >> MANCHESTER PD WAS OF GREAT ASSISTANCE BY BRINGING IN CIVILIAN. COUNSELORS TO TALK WITH THESE PEOPLE AND HELP THEM THROUGH THIS SITUATION. MIKE C: IS THE INCIDENT UNFOLDED, POLICE RESPONDED TO ANOTHER CALL ONE MILE NORTH. INVESTIGATORS SAY A WOMAN STOPPED HER CAR ON 293 SOUTH, EXITED HER VEHICLE, AND ATTEMPTED TO RUN INTO THE NORTH BOUND LANE. SH

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Part of I-293 in Manchester was shut down Monday after a man jumped off an overpass into oncoming traffic, police said.Southbound lanes near the Mall of New Hampshire were closed, and traffic was detoured off the highway at Exit 1. >> Download the FREE WMUR appState police said that just before 10:30 a.m., a man in his 40s jumped from the South Willow Street overpass. He was struck by two vehicles and pronounced dead at the scene.The man's identity has not been released.Witness Francis St. Hilaire said he saw a man standing on the overpass."Look where the fire truck is, down on the highway, right above, you see the fence with the curved top that prevents people from jumping," St. Hilaire said. "He was right to the right of that, where the guardrail is just a regular guardrail, and he was standing right at that corner."Another witness said he was driving his tractor-trailer in the right lane of I-293 and swerved out of the way just before the man jumped into traffic. "There was a white pickup truck that was traveling behind the tractor-trailer that didn't have as much time to react," state police Lt. Bryan Trask said. "He put the brakes on, and when the subject jumped, he landed on that vehicle."The man was struck by another vehicle, police said."There was some medical personnel driving by the scene who stopped immediately, attempted to render aid and were not successful," Trask said.Some of the witnesses who said they saw the man near the fencing on South Willow Street didn't think he would jump."I live right here on this corner, and we see transients all the time collecting money," St. Hilaire said. "We thought maybe he was just one of those people."Investigators said the drivers involved in the incident were lucky to escape without injuries."Manchester police were of great assistance by bringing in counselors in to talk to these people and help them through this situation," Trask said.As the incident unfolded, police were called to another incident 1 mile north. Investigators said a woman stopped her car on I-293 South, exited her vehicle and attempted to run into the northbound lane. She was stopped by a Good Samaritan.Investigators said the two incidents are not related.If you or someone you know needs help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or visit its website to talk to someone online.