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Woman Dies in Fall from Parkway BridgeBy WYDaily Staff Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Williamsburg police report a city woman apparently fell to her death Tuesday morning from a bridge over the National Colonial Parkway.Police received two 911 calls two minutes apart around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. City police spokesman Major Greg Riley said the first caller reported a woman was "straddling the bridge" where Merrimac Trail passes over the Colonial Parkway. The second caller reported the woman was lying on the parkway below. National Park Service officers were the first to arrive and began CPR, Riley said. City of Williamsburg medics arrived shortly after. They pronounced the woman, later identified as 67-year-old Diana Legg, dead. Mrs. Legg lived nearby on Merrimac Trail, Riley said. An investigation into the circumstances have led police to conclude the fall was a suicide, Riley said. A family member told police Mrs. Legg suffered from depression, and there was "no evidence to indicate any other finding at this time," Riley said. A final disposition on the cause of death is pending the results of the medical examiner's report. |
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you can fall off of a step stool and die, is just matters how you land and what you land on. If your mind is to commit suicide, I would think one would purposfully land in a pretty vulnerable position.
With that said, its a sad day for her family and my heart is with them. Depression is a silent killer and the signs usually only show after it is too late.... tell those you know, you love them; show those you dont know, how to love.