A South Carolina woman died after falling 23 feet from a bridge while attempting to rescue a auto crash victim.
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The Greenville County Coroner’s Workplace stated in that Jessica Nicole Smith, 29, was a passenger in a auto in that stumbled on the crash at the intersection of Interstate 385 & U.S. Freeway 276. A man who was in the truck also plunged down from the bridge but was able to survive, Evan said.
When Smith found no one in the cab of the truck, she leaned out over a bridge to see if anyone was there, county Coroner Parks Evans said in a statement. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause and manner of death. She’d go out of her way to help complete strangers, people she didn’t know, her sister Hope Smith told WYFF, adding that the family is heartbroken and empty following her death. She said she will take in her sister’s nine-year-old son and raise him as her own.
The driver is still in critical condition at the hospital, but what makes this story even more upsetting is that Jessica was a single mother and leaves behind a 9-year-old son Isaiah.
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Although Jessica’s family is struggling with this tragic loss, they said she lost her life trying to help someone and that is something she was always meant to do. “She would try to help anybody that needed help”, said Betty Smith, Jessica’s grandmother. “I couldn’t imagine that”, Jessica said, according to the Daily Mail UK.
