For about 3 hours overnight, both sides of I- 696 near Coolidge were closed by police for an incident. It was re-opened to traffic about 4am.
Here’s the rest of the story.
Truckers lined up next to each other on both sides of the freeway, to assist State Police as police were talking to a man who was thinking of committing suicide by jumping off the overpass.
The truck drivers lined up to block traffic, and they also made it more difficult for the man to jump and harm himself because the tops of their trucks were just underneath the overpass.
Police talked the man into giving up.
