They say 29 year old Jessica Smith got out of her vehicle she was riding along a South Carolina highway at 1:45 Saturday morning to help someone hurt in an accident before first responders arrived.
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Smith, who is a trained nursing assistant, had tried to climb over the bridge safety barrier to reach one of the victims when she slipped and fell, according to police.
A victim of the crash who additionally plunged from the bridge is believed to have referred to as again from one other freeway beneath the crash scene.
A South Carolina family is burying its second family member in two months and a 9-year-old boy is left without a mom after a 29-year-old Good Samaritan fell to her death while trying to help an injured truck driver, WYFF reports. “She’d go out of her way to help complete strangers, people she didn’t know, and that’s exactly what she was doing”. The man’s medical condition was not clear late Sunday, but the coroner’s office said he survived his fall.
The woman fell 23 feet down the bridge at Interstate 385 as she placed her legs over the bridge to check on any victims who were inside a truck that had crashed there.
Jessica Nicole Smith and her son, Isaiah, 9, in an undated photo.
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Hope Smith said the day before her sister’s passing, she posted a status on Facebook worrying she would not be around for Isaiah. I couldn’t imagine that’.
