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Route 40 overpass, MD
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Officer Risks Life To Save Man In Mental Health Crisis Trying To Walk Into MD Traffic (
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Not all heroes wear capes. Disaster was averted on the shoulder of a Maryland highway when members of the Hagerstown Police Department risked their own lives to come to the aid of a man suffering from a mental health crisis who wanted to wander into traffic. On Monday, July 10, officers were called to the 1900 block of Dual Highway, where there was a man shouting that he was going to jump into the roadway. First on the scene was Master Police Officer Biden, who was flagged by a Good Samaritan that directed him to the shoulder of I-70 underneath the Route 40 overpass, where a man continua…