A South Carolina good Samaritan fell to her death early Saturday when she stopped on a bridge to help a man who crashed his pickup truck.
Jessica Nicole Smith fell about 23 feet just before 2 a.m. after she heard a man crying for help under the Greenville County bridge and decided to try to crawl down and reach him, officials said.
The 29-year-old mom and certified nursing assistant’s friends and family said Smith died exactly how she lived — on a constant quest to help others.
“If anybody ever needed help, Jessica was always there. 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.
Investigators said Smith and several other do-gooders pulled over on I-385 around 1:30 a.m. after they spotted a wrecked pickup truck. As other people surveyed the crashed vehicle, Smith heard a man yelling from under the interstate bridge, witnesses said.
The man, who was the driver of the crashed truck, was thrown from his pickup during the wreck, witnesses said. Smith decided to climb over the bridge and try to help him.
Smith likely believed the underpass road was just a few feet below the bridge, officials said. As she tried to climb down to reach the man, she fell more than 20 feet to her death.
The condition of the man and the cause of the crash were not immediately clear.
Hope Smith said she is now taking care of her sister’s 9-year-old son Isaiah.
Via: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/s-good-samaritan-falls-death-helping-crash-article-1.2376750
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