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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would swim away[/quote]
Huh?

I did the Bay Bridge swim but started on the beach. Half way through I turned on my back and looked up at the bridge - boy, was it high. Hitting the water from that height would be like hitting concrete.[/quote]
+1 My dad and I talked about this when we did the Bay Bridge walk. From the high parts it’s the fall that might kill you even before you hit the water which can definitely kill you. [/quote]

I remember like 20 years ago a college student was driving across the Bay Bridge when her car was pushed off by a semi. She survived the fall, in her car, was able to get out of her car and swam all the way to shore (not sure where she was when she went over but that bridge is 5+ miles long). Reports said this was insanely rare and probably because she was a division 1 athlete that she was able to do all of this but it has happened. [/quote]

Someone posted about that. It was from the ramp end, not the middle - about 23 feet.[/quote]

I posted about someone who fell off the Bay Bridge (in a car) at 27 feet. I did not read that she was an athlete. I'm not aware of the person PP posted about. [/quote]

To add, that incident was 10 years ago. I don't know about the one 20 years ago. [/quote]

This is the same incident. College student, 27 feet, 2013.

In 2011 a car went over but it was an older man.

In 2008 a tractor trailer went over and was believed to be the first time a vehicle ever went over. [/quote]

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