Video provides answers into Capilano Suspension Bridge death
Posted June 4, 2012 2:57 pm.
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NORTH VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Video evidence has shown police exactly how a 30-year-old man from St. Catharines, Ontario fell to his death from a walkway near the Capilano Suspension Bridge.
North Vancouver RCMP Corporal Richard De Jong confirms the man who died had dropped his debit card as he reached into his pocket for a camera.
“He then proceeded to walk about 100 feet down the pathway, where he suddenly jumped the four-foot-high metal-mesh fence,” he says. “He was actually asked what he was doing, and said he was going to retrieve his debit card.”
“Unfortunately he lost his footing and fell to the canyon floor below where he died,” De Jong adds.
The fall happened in front of horrified witnesses. Grief counsellors were brought in for park staff.
While calling it a tragedy, De Jong points out thousands of tourists visit the Capilano Suspension Bridge every year, usually without incident.
“Measures in place are there for public safety and if people comply with them then there’s no risk,” he says.
A 17-year-old tourist from California died two years ago after a fall while high on drugs. In 1999, a mother dropped her baby over a railing, but the child survived.
