'NEW FENCING NEEDED TO DETER SUICIDE BIDS'

A GLENGORMLEY councillor has called for improved fencing to be erected at the Hightown Road bridge amid concerns that people intent on committing suicide could jump from the road onto the M2 motorway.

By The Newsroom

Published 27th Jul 2010, 12:12 BST

Updated 28th Jul 2010, 12:26 BST

Alderman Nigel Hamilton, who sits on the Northern Health Trust's Suicide Prevention Partnership, warned that several people have attempted to jump from the bridge over the past two years.

"I have been approached by a number of concerned residents who are anxious at the increased number of attempts made by people trying to climb up on the railings and jump onto the motorway in a desperate effort to commit suicide," the DUP man told the Times.

"Some of these people are as young as 16 years old, and the danger they cause not only to themselves, passers-by who have attempted to stop them or talk them down, and the very obvious danger to car drivers/passengers below should they fall onto a car or in a heavy vehicle's path, cause me to shudder to think of the consequences."

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