Woman injured in jump from overpass onto I-69

Laura Lane
The Herald-Times

A woman jumped off the West Third Street bridge over Interstate 69 Monday night in an apparent suicide attempt survived, but sustained serious injuries.

Police said a passerby called 911 about 7 p.m. to report seeing a pair of shoes and a backpack on the overpass sidewalk on the north side, and a woman sitting on the other side of the cement-and-metal barrier, facing south.

The 37-year-old woman then jumped, a police report said, landing in a northbound lane on the highway.

Police arrived and used their cars to block traffic, closing northbound I-69 for about 10 minutes, according to Capt. Ryan Pedigo from the Bloomington Police Department.

Pedigo said the woman, who is transient, suffered multiple broken bones and a possible head injury. She was conscious and alert, talking to a police officer, before being transported to IU Health Bloomington Hospital.