ABC7) – A critical care nurse survived a harrowing 75 foot fall fro – A critical care nurse survived a harrowing 75-foot fall from a bridge along Interstate 70, landing in the murky Monocacy River.
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A trooper pulled her to shore, and she was treated at the scene before being flown to the same shock-trauma centre where she works in Baltimore. Back at home, she told WUSA9 her story.
The interstate is closed in both directions after the 5 a.m. crash as extensive clean-up is underway. Police said she thought there was a median on the other side.
Weir was discharged from the hospital in good condition by mid-afternoon.
“There was brake lights and a ball of fire in front of us”, Angela Weir, the nurse who fell, said.
“I began falling, and I didn’t know right away what I was falling to and didn’t know what I was going to land on”, she said.
Weir had no broken bones, her brother William Floria said in a telephone interview. “And they couldn’t find me at first because I was under some brush”.
“I don’t understand why I’m uninjured”, Weir said.
State police said the woman didn’t know about the gap when she jumped over the jersey wall.as she rushed to help people involved in a collision involving a tractor-trailer and a dump truck on I-70 west of Frederick. The supervisor said the driver of the tractor-trailer was taken by ambulance to Meritus Medical Center east of Hagerstown. The drivers of the vehicles were also hospitalized.
The driver of the dump truck and the person who fell into the river were flown to R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
Charges are pending, police said.
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Weir was able to make it to the bank of the bridge when she started calling her husband Chris. Whether or not to help was never even a question.
