SAN FRANCISCO -- A 16-year-old female became the newer individual in five weeks to outlast a plummet from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge -- a 220-foot pinch that is almost always fatal. The unmarked teen lived through the globule Sunday and the 20 minutes she done up in the 53-degree spray of San Francisco Bay before she was rescued, Fire Department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said. The body of a U.S. Coast Guard motor yacht that pulled the demoiselle from the bay about 200 yards from the east arrogance of the tie said she was wilful and responsive.
One see reported considering her swimming to thwart afloat, Talmadge said. "To me, it's just dazzling she even survived that drop, whether it was a gain or a fall," she said. The mistress was transported to Marin General Hospital, but her shape wasn't when available.
In March, a 17-year-old varlet who jumped from the connection during a train field trip survived with only bruises and the danger of prosecution for trespassing. Authorities said he climbed over a railing as a stunt, mayhap after being goaded into it by classmates. Mary Currie, spokeswoman for the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, said Sunday's affair involving the piece was being handled as a suicide attempt. The Golden Gate Bridge is considered one of the world's most all the rage spots for suicides, with a rise survival assess of only about 2 percent.
The span neighbourhood does not slot nonfatal leaps, but Currie estimated that 278 occupy took their lives from the cross between 2000 and 2010. About 677 race were deterred after usual to the join intending to injury themselves, she said. Copyright 2011 by.
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