GET ME REWRITE: After 24 years, fences dramatically reduce suicides at Florida's Sunshine Skyway Bridge

 

Photo credit:  Wikipedia

That was then:  New York Times, 5/9/1999

(from Retiring Guy's clippings file)

This is now:  Spectrum News, 6/5/2022

For decades, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge has been one of Tampa Bay’s most iconic landmarks. But the 190 foot-high peak has also drawn hundreds of people wanting to take their own life. Most who have jumped from the top of span have died. Each time, witnesses, first responders and loved ones are left traumatized. 

Now, nearly a year since fences along the top of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay were completed, suicide rates have decreased dramatically.

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