Distraught Woman Jumps 50 Feet From Ho-Ho-Kus Bridge

Passerby Jack Sedlak said he spoke with the 54-year-old Ridgewood woman and directed rescuers to her after she plunged 50 or so feet from the Warren Avenue bridge over the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook just off Brookside Avenue shortly before 6 p.m.

They needed a Stokes basket to hoist the victim up the embankment to a waiting ambulance before she was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with lower extremity injuries.

Boyd A. Loving took the photo and contributed to this article. 

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HERO: Route 46 was closed down and an air mattress was inflated beneath a New Jersey overpass as police tried to convince a troubled 15-year-old not to jump.

https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/saddlebrook/police-fire/hero-saddle-brook-police-officer-coaxes-distraught-youth-15-off-highway-ledge/793930/

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