'But once again, you have to be very careful. 'I look at it as just another tragedy,' said Sanchez, asked about the context of the Venetian closing. But for a city notorious for pedestrian danger, it is, nonetheless, another death on a causeway. With so many unanswered questions about Wednesday evening's collision, it's impossible to know, of course, if the death might have been prevented had the low-speed bridge been open or a better pedestrian alternative been in place. Troopers responded to the call of a 'person in distress' on the northbound. The incident was reported shortly after 6 p.m. “Oh my God,” Maria Luisa de Jesus Hoover, a local cycling organizer, told New Times before of the closing. “If the city doesn’t do anything now, it’s going to be a disaster.” Virginia State Police said a woman who jumped from the Varina-Enon Bridge on Interstate 295 into the James River early Saturday night was retrieved from the water and taken to an area hospital for treatment. Local governments had no plan for the affected pedestrians, committing only to better street sweeping on the MacArthur. The low-speed Venetian Causeway, long the best way for cyclists and pedestrians to cross between Miami and Miami Beach, closed June 1 for a $12.4 million renovation expected to take nine months. The close-knit bicycling community hoped it wouldn't be a harbinger. His tragic death followed a string of Miami cyclist fatalities. Vasquez, who earned a meager salary yet still sent money back to his young daughter and grandparents, was catapulted into the dark bay below, where divers recovered his body some two hours later. In late April, a 25-year-old Guatemalan native named Eber Vasquez was killed near the western section of the busy highway when a speeding car swerved into his bicycle from behind. The collision is currently under investigation, the spokesman said, adding that authorities would now try to cross reference fingerprints taken from the body with existing police records in the hope of finding a match.īut even as questions linger, about the man's identity and the nature of the collision, grave safety concerns linger for Miami's pedestrians and cyclists, especially on the Julia Tuttle Causeway. 'He has not been identified,' Sanchez told New Times. When emergency arrived, the man was pronounced dead.īut as of late yesterday afternoon, Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Joe Sanchez says, that's all that's known about the fatal crash. He was hit by the Chrysler, his body launching until it landed on the shoulder. West of Alton Road a man was walking across the highway from south to north. Burton Bridge was also the subject to several closures in 2021 as police successfully talked a man down.Around 8:40 Wednesday evening, not long after sunset, a 51-year-old woman was driving east on the Tuttle Causeway in a 2015 Chrysler van, towards Miami Beach. Previous incidents described as such by police are understood to have involved people in distress threatening to jump from the bridges. He was assessed by ambulance staff before being conveyed to Burton Hospital for further treatment.” Upon arrival we found a man in a serious condition. Two ambulances, four paramedic officers and the Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) attended the scene. It is not the first time that one of Burton's two main bridges had been closed due to the concerns for the welfare of a man.Ī spokesperson for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: “We were called to an incident on St Peters Bridge at 3.06pm. Now, Staffordshire Police has said the incident was 'brought to a safe conclusion' and the road was reopened by 10.25pm. At one point it is understood the nearby Ferry Bridge was also closed to pedestrians Witnesses at the scene hoping to walk over the bridge reported that they were stopped by police. TOP STORY: Police incident shut St Peter's Bridge in Burton - RECAP There was congestion on all routes to the bridge including from Branston Road, the A444 Stapenhill Road, and the A511 was also congested over Burton Bridge as traffic diverted from the closure. The incident brought traffic to a standstill throughout Burton as the bridge was still closed into rush hour. Officers said they shut the key route through Burton due to 'concern for the welfare of a man'.Įmergency services, including paramedics, attended the scene just after 3pm. An elderly woman was inside the home when the fire started, but she escaped. St Peter's Bridge has reopened after being closed by police for more than six hours hours last night. The vehicle failed to immediately pull over and exited at Fremaux Avenue.

Alton woman jumps off bridge 2021