A driver at a company i worked at about 15 years ago had a jumper come through his windscreen.
Guy never drove again and took a load of tablets a few years later himself.
Blamed the jumper in the note he left, he never got over the horror of that day.
At least when he did it, he didn’t ruin someone else’s life.
Slightly off topic
Those 2 new foot bridges on the new A14 stretch around Cambridge Services are a disaster waiting to happen as it’s only a matter of time before someone jumps off one of them and spoils a drivers day
cgscott:
Why thoughts to driver? The person under the harp wanted to die. Driver never ran over said person deliberately.Granted he might have got a fright but it is no more so than splatting a deer on a country road when flat out. Fright then crack on next day.
Have you no shame ■■? Show some respect man 
cgscott:
Why thoughts to driver? The person under the harp wanted to die. Driver never ran over said person deliberately.Granted he might have got a fright but it is no more so than splatting a deer on a country road when flat out. Fright then crack on next day.
What a prize prick you are, disgusting despicable Individual are words that are too good on you
robthedog:
cgscott:
Why thoughts to driver? The person under the harp wanted to die. Driver never ran over said person deliberately.Granted he might have got a fright but it is no more so than splatting a deer on a country road when flat out. Fright then crack on next day.
What a prize prick you are, disgusting despicable Individual are words that are too good on you
Thanks. Snowflake
Samward27. Why photo it and post it too social media? Wtf is wrong with people … anything for likes. On another note given the way of the world at the moment ( this person RIP ) I think there will be many more that feel they have nothing left, and need to get away. The world is in a horrible state at the mo.
Coming home this morning every overpass I drove under which had people walking on it I caught myself thinking ‘Please don’t jump, please don’t jump, please don’t jump’. It worked - no one jumped.
Having had to deal with a similar situation to this which happened to me 15 years ago, mine was a pedestrian who decided he wished to go to the green and promised land, At 56mph on an unlite road all i heard was a bang as the windscreen disapeared,. Did i need counciling No, did it affect me no, was back in the seat 8 hrs later, with the driver who came to get me, show must go on, Truck was impounded for 2weeks, checking for road worthyness, and devices.
Until you’ve been in the situation think before you post crap about what has/may happen, i know been threre, sat through it, waited 12months for the outcome of investigation, some people can just carry on some will need lots of help, i was lucky it did’nt affect me, those of a different make’up,it could change their lives forever.
As for the guy who jumped, obvisously he had problems, but his selffesness by jumping from the bridge to end his life, has affected at least 2 familes.
The fh in the picture crumpled were it should have, the Volvo has a steel cage, the roof is a crumple zone, as is rear of cab.
Looks like The Rock did The Peoples Elbow jumping from the bridge.
Suicide… probably the most selfish act you could possibly do, then, to involve some innocent as well makes it even worse…unless you’ve had a close relative do it, you’ll never understand the heartache and devastation of those left behind, and they normally carry it for the rest of their lives.
I had a close family member do it, a young woman in her late twenties, 4 kids in the house one of which found her hanging from the other side of the kitchen door.
cgscott:
Why thoughts to driver? The person under the harp wanted to die. Driver never ran over said person deliberately.Granted he might have got a fright but it is no more so than splatting a deer on a country road when flat out. Fright then crack on next day.
What a load of old nonsense. You think watching someone hit the front of your lorry before you run over them the witnessing their body underneath your lorry is easy is it? This post makes you sound like a heartless moron
Thoughts to the driver. I hope he can get over this in time and I hope he has good people to support him
switchlogic:
cgscott:
Why thoughts to driver? The person under the harp wanted to die. Driver never ran over said person deliberately.Granted he might have got a fright but it is no more so than splatting a deer on a country road when flat out. Fright then crack on next day.
What a load of old nonsense. You think watching someone hit the front of your lorry before you run over them the witnessing their body underneath your lorry is easy is it? This post makes you sound like a heartless moron
Thoughts to the driver. I hope he can get over this in time and I hope he has good people to support him
I can see both sides to this, It all depends how your wired and your own mental attitude, some it will affect for ever, bad dreams, or as it’s now called PTSD, Then there’s others like myself, I did just crack on the next day, I remember what happened, the total caranage, the body laying there, all smashed, blood dripping, The waiting around in a patrol car, before being taken to the station for interview,
It also affects people who you work with,as they don’t know what to say, affects the Emergency services who attended, every one deals with it different, The only things that affect me was hearing some of things been said by so called professional emergency workers,
Didn’t something similar happen to a driver a few years back on the A64 he never got over it and ended up taking his own life
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switchlogic:
cgscott:
Why thoughts to driver? The person under the harp wanted to die. Driver never ran over said person deliberately.Granted he might have got a fright but it is no more so than splatting a deer on a country road when flat out. Fright then crack on next day.
What a load of old nonsense. You think watching someone hit the front of your lorry before you run over them the witnessing their body underneath your lorry is easy is it? This post makes you sound like a heartless moron
Thoughts to the driver. I hope he can get over this in time and I hope he has good people to support him
I can see both sides to this, It all depends how your wired and your own mental attitude, some it will affect for ever, bad dreams, or as it’s now called PTSD, Then there’s others like myself, I did just crack on the next day, I remember what happened, the total caranage, the body laying there, all smashed, blood dripping, The waiting around in a patrol car, before being taken to the station for interview,
It also affects people who you work with,as they don’t know what to say, affects the Emergency services who attended, every one deals with it different, The only things that affect me was hearing some of things been said by so called professional emergency workers,
Like I said before mate, I ain’t a panicker, I take things in my stride, I like to think I’m good in a dodgy situation, and I don’t scare easy, …but I do not think even I could start back in next day as if nowt had happened, (on the other hand it wouldn’t put an end to my career either)
If you did manage to just let it go immediately, I reckon you’re lucky to have that type of temperament.
I remember an ex squaddie mate of mine who had the job of picking up bodies after a pub/club was bombed in Ireland, they were picking limbs and body parts up, my mate dealt with it in his own way, black humour making jokes out of it, the lad who was his mate, it finished his Army career he told me.
Everybody’s different.
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Having had to deal with a similar situation to this which happened to me 15 years ago, mine was a pedestrian who decided he wished to go to the green and promised land, At 56mph on an unlite road all i heard was a bang as the windscreen disapeared,. Did i need counciling No, did it affect me no, was back in the seat 8 hrs later, with the driver who came to get me, show must go on, Truck was impounded for 2weeks, checking for road worthyness, and devices.Until you’ve been in the situation think before you post crap about what has/may happen, i know been threre, sat through it, waited 12months for the outcome of investigation, some people can just carry on some will need lots of help, i was lucky it did’nt affect me, those of a different make’up,it could change their lives forever.
I was coming off a late at Toscos Doncaster a couple of months back and found an Asian taxi driver pinning a young-ish girl against his taxi on the bridge at J3. Thought WTF and pulled over to competing stories:
He said she was trying to off herself and he was holding her to keep her safe, the police were on the way.
She said he was holding her against her will and she wanted out.
Not knowing what was what I said that I would stay there to make sure nothing happened to her until the police arrived. Spoke to her for about ten minutes waiting for plod, thought I had her calmed down, she wanted a ■■■ so she sat down by the rear wheel of the taxi, I lit a ■■■ for her and she was off like a robbers dog. She was pretty much over the rail and in free-fall before I got a grab on her and dragged her back! (Cabbie was explaining situation to passing trucker so wasn’t able to help but I got it done, how I don’t know.) So now i’m pinning her against the side of the cab, taxi man in on the blower to the police to find out what the heck is taking so long, a Slam Transport lorry comes round the roundabout and she is off again trying to dive under its wheels.
The driver was an absolute champ, I wouldn’t have got it stopped in time. From then on, and until there were five coppers there to catch her if she went for it again, I had her face down next to the cab with my knee in her shoulder blades. Seems a bit harsh looking back but there was no way in hell I was letting her make attempt #3 while I was there and I figured the force was justifiable to protect life. Cops came and took over and I was shaking like a leaf for the next couple of hours.
It properly frit me up, I was back at it the next night but I’m still REALLY nervous driving under that junction and am just waiting for the crunch whenever I see people on a bridge that I’m headed towards at speed. BUT; The show must go on as they say. No-one is going to pay me to sit at home ‘getting over’ a traumatic experience had on my own time and even if they would, all stewing on it will do is put me off ever going back on the road. Better to get back up on the horse in my opinion.
That being said, she left the bridge alive, don’t know if I could be so ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ if she’d come through the sunroof and landed on the bunk. I suspect not.
Perhaps there is a mental low-health state that makes a person think “If I jump under this vehicle - they’ll be sorry they ignored me when I said I was depressed!”
Could be worse though…
Take any typical “Sucide by Cop” event in America for instance…
Disgruntled employee turns up at office the day after they get sacked - tooled up.
Kills a number of people, often not known to them beforehand, before finding the main target for their ire, at which point the ammunition has invarably run out (emptied magazine into hated jobsworth…) and the cops turn up: Perp lifts up empty gun at cops, and duly gets blown away on sight, as expected.
“Rinse and Repeat”.
Some say “Get rid of guns”, others say “Concentrate more on mental health issues”.
How about “not upset people to the point of driving them to suicide/murder” in the FIRST place huh?
nsmith1180:
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Having had to deal with a similar situation to this which happened to me 15 years ago, mine was a pedestrian who decided he wished to go to the green and promised land, At 56mph on an unlite road all i heard was a bang as the windscreen disapeared,. Did i need counciling No, did it affect me no, was back in the seat 8 hrs later, with the driver who came to get me, show must go on, Truck was impounded for 2weeks, checking for road worthyness, and devices.Until you’ve been in the situation think before you post crap about what has/may happen, i know been threre, sat through it, waited 12months for the outcome of investigation, some people can just carry on some will need lots of help, i was lucky it did’nt affect me, those of a different make’up,it could change their lives forever.
I was coming off a late at Toscos Doncaster a couple of months back and found an Asian taxi driver pinning a young-ish girl against his taxi on the bridge at J3. Thought WTF and pulled over to competing stories:
He said she was trying to off herself and he was holding her to keep her safe, the police were on the way.
She said he was holding her against her will and she wanted out.
Not knowing what was what I said that I would stay there to make sure nothing happened to her until the police arrived. Spoke to her for about ten minutes waiting for plod, thought I had her calmed down, she wanted a ■■■ so she sat down by the rear wheel of the taxi, I lit a ■■■ for her and she was off like a robbers dog. She was pretty much over the rail and in free-fall before I got a grab on her and dragged her back! (Cabbie was explaining situation to passing trucker so wasn’t able to help but I got it done, how I don’t know.) So now i’m pinning her against the side of the cab, taxi man in on the blower to the police to find out what the heck is taking so long, a Slam Transport lorry comes round the roundabout and she is off again trying to dive under its wheels.
The driver was an absolute champ, I wouldn’t have got it stopped in time. From then on, and until there were five coppers there to catch her if she went for it again, I had her face down next to the cab with my knee in her shoulder blades. Seems a bit harsh looking back but there was no way in hell I was letting her make attempt #3 while I was there and I figured the force was justifiable to protect life. Cops came and took over and I was shaking like a leaf for the next couple of hours.
It properly frit me up, I was back at it the next night but I’m still REALLY nervous driving under that junction and am just waiting for the crunch whenever I see people on a bridge that I’m headed towards at speed. BUT; The show must go on as they say. No-one is going to pay me to sit at home ‘getting over’ a traumatic experience had on my own time and even if they would, all stewing on it will do is put me off ever going back on the road. Better to get back up on the horse in my opinion.
That being said, she left the bridge alive, don’t know if I could be so ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ if she’d come through the sunroof and landed on the bunk. I suspect not.
Reminds me of the Eriksson twins… Couple of complete nutters.
Good Samaritan Glenn Hollinshead takes one in later, and gets murdered by her for his trouble. 
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cgscott:
robthedog:
cgscott:
Why thoughts to driver? The person under the harp wanted to die. Driver never ran over said person deliberately.Granted he might have got a fright but it is no more so than splatting a deer on a country road when flat out. Fright then crack on next day.
What a prize prick you are, disgusting despicable Individual are words that are too good on you
Thanks. Snowflake
■■■■■■, snowflake eh
I’ve driven further than you ever will, and to destinations that you could only dream of
Prick
There was another one on Saturday afternoon - M18 s/b between J2 & 3
I saw the skid marks + investigation spray paint markings yesterday as i went south past the spot, luckily the driver also kept it in a straight line on impact…impressive driving in the circumstances [IMO]
RIP