A man drove up to the apex of the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro last night, scaled the security fence, and jumped to his death, a Port of Los Angeles official said.
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Witnesses on the bridge saw the man — believed to have been in his 40s — drive his car up to the apex just after 8 p.m. and get out with the headlights on and engine running, Port of Los Angeles spokesman Phillip Sanfield said.
“He did a quick scale of the fence — a 10-to-12-foot fence,” Sanfield said.
“There were witnesses on the bridge who saw him jump and witnesses on the water who saw him land,” he said. “A passenger boat retrieved the man and contacted port police who responded and administered CPR until an L.A. Fire boat arrived,” Sanfield said.
Firefighters pronounced the man dead at the scene, he said.
The 10-to-12-foot chain link security fence “is not easy to scale,” he said.
The port does not keep statistics on suicide jumps because the bridge is owned by Caltrans, Sanfield said, but “they do happen on occasion.”
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