Anyone heard of a possible jumper off the Seacombe bridge at the Wallasey Tunnel?...

tweet off BBC Merseyside

Kingsway tunnel in Liverpool closed due to police incident. Queensway tunnel is closed for maintenance. Major delays. Latest on 95.8FM

fuccking jumpers, cant they find somewhere else to end there miserable lives instead of disrupting everyone elses plans. I was stuck in that que for 10mins and thought.....bollox to this Im off and back down the M53 I went.

Yeah just updated The Wirral Travel alerts thread too, what are people supposed to do, my mate is over there and traffic is backed up all over city centre, he's decided to drive around now, been waiting over half an hour and no info except Police Incident.

Shouldn't they clear the Queensway and get the traffic moving.. surely they cant be 'roadworking' every lane at once in there!!!

Apparently Kingsway has reopened now

has it, i might have another go at it, any proof of it bud, save me a wasted journey?

are you all stuck in liverpool?

nope, want to go to lpool lol. (stuck indoors)!

ah right thought you couldnt make it home or something!

http://twitter.com/bbcmerseyside

I really feel that people can be a little insensitive sometimes. If it was a suicide I am sure the last thing on their mind is the 30 minutes inconvenience that has been caused due to the tunnel being closed. The people who attempt suicide are usually either very desperate people whose whole world is falling apart or people who have some sort of mental health problems..
It breaks my heart to hear of a person feeling that there situation is so desperate that they feel that they cannot carry on. I know first hand the pain and anguish that the family of the suicide victim will be going through, particularly at this time of year. My thoughts are with the family of this suicide victim. He/She is yet another victim of the recent austerity measures and problems in our society.

Well said

100% well said

totally agree about problems in society such as selfishness, inconsidderation, thoughtlessness and many more, all of which the jumper has been a big part of. Im sorry for the victum, no one should be driven to such at fate, but to do it in such a place....why??????

it was the bnridge on oakdale wasnt it? these barriers are not working obviously, thi has been a major issue for many years.

probably sheer desperation, when a person gets into the kind of state were they are thinking about suicide it is often an impulse, and can often be done in a fit of hysteria, or sometimes it can be a mental health issue which drives people to take their lives in such a public way.

very sad

i know it`s very sad ,they must feel they have no one to turn to

They need to find wikiwirral!

And can I just say to keep it bk on topic, the tunnel is now opem, just been through it.

lets hope all ended well and no one got hurt, still raises a serious issue about the easyness of jumping off these bridges, its happend for years

Does anyone actually know if it was a "jumper" at seacombe or not?

I was sat in liverpool for around 45 minutes waiting to get through the wallasey tunnel as the birko one was shut.

Lots of police cars at the liverpool end but once I got into the tunnel, it was free flowing as normal with no apparent signs of activity at the seacombe end - both tunnels with both lanes open and no police.

Maybe wrong but from what I saw, it looked like the hold up was in liverpool.

We'd better shut all bridges and footpaths down.

ITS THE ONLY WAY.

maybe in the echo tomorrow?

must be other nasty devices too

On the London underground, there are "jumpers" every day. It's so common that people just shrug their shoulders and carry on reading/ipoding/etc. Symbol of our lack of regard for our fellow man, innit. As far as shutting bridges down-that's daft. If a person wants to kill themselves, they'll always find a way. Like the Irishman who jumped off a tunnel.

i was simply saying increasing the height, which ar actuall rather high at the moment

LMFAO

Wasted enough of our cash thanks, get the potholes and bad roads fixed as they're more important.

ur gonna get a backlash for that whn the pc brigade wake up in the morning haha

Aye, but we are all entitled to our opinion remember

Lol

haha am not allowed at the moment im on double secret probation.

"Jumpers" What a waste... if they want to kill themselves, they should offer to go to Afghanistan and go in front of one of our armoured vehicles as an IED detector.

Jump, jump, jump.... Boom! . Job done, he's dead as he wanted, but 5 troops in the truck live.

There's an endless supply of them...Its an idea.........

bingo!

As a ex samaritan,Im pretty disgusted at some of the comments on this thread..maybe some of you should do a shift and realise how desperate people become..believe me its not something taken lightly.I have been caught in the tunnel a couple of times because of a suicide but never thought about how quick I can get home..when you can do something like that you don't think about anyone else...some think it's selfish some don't but it does take guts..sorry for ranting!!

Top marks

I phoned the samaritans once-and they hung up!!

Oh lighten up people tehhh!

it is sad, must be in a right state to want to take your own life.

Maybe it's because they feel no-one cares about their lives, so they make sure that someone cares about their death? Even if it's only because it's caused a traffic jam...

Tragic.

My friends husband that stills does a thursday night for The samaritans,i was amazed at how many desperate calls they get in one night.
Who knows what goes through people's minds when they are at their wits end,its very sad!

my feelings exactly...go and ruin your own life, but not in front of innocent people and children in cars below....how evil must you be to put that ever lasting picture into an innocent childs mind.....and the pc brigade can go and do one!!!

ffs, another from the protect the children brigade?

There is no proof of "anyone jumping"!

It's all hearsay ATM.

Oh.....

wow arent you the sensitive 1!!!! not!!!

wow just wow!!!

Well said ^^^^^

So, when all the dust has settled, did someone jump?

Post of the year. Pity they didn't jump when the strike was on and the tunnels were closed.

I agree that we should be sensitive when commenting on incidents such as this, but wonder how you arrived at the conclusion that this was due to austerity measures? Desparate, Confused, Depressed, maybe, but I'm struggling to understand how you came to this conclusion, we can't blame them for everything.

maybe they just got there iphone 4s bill in

Very true, the jumper could have been a pedo who has just been found out.......
would opinions change then towards the jumper (if there was a jumper at all).

I just meant to use 'austerity as an example, there are an awful lot of people at the bottom of the income scale who are really struggling to pay their bills, I'm not politicizing believe me, thats one can of worms I'm not going to open on here LOL.

You tend not to think of the consequences of your actions, other people, family, damage to property whatever, it's just you on your own with no other option, desperation, that the people you're close to, the problems you've caused. it would be better if you were just not here.

So still no word what happened?

I still think the problem was at the Liverpool from what I saw at the time.
Seems like whenever a road or tunnel is closed, the rumours of a "jumper" or huge crash start within minutes when sometimes it's completely un-related.

Just thought you may want to know on tuesday 13th and wednesday 14th there will be contaflow in operation ,from 9:45 -15:00 on both days in the wallasey tunnel

It was nearly a jumper, backed out at the last minute!!!!!
Yes thank you for costing me more taxes for the policing of the situation,you attention seeking tart, next time try the river,at least you wont make a mess in front of everyone!

how sensitive! Hope one of your family or friends don't have problems and try this.....

I have been reading through some of these posts and there are so many disgusting comments! how would you feel if this "jumper" was a member of your family or friends people wouldn't be having whinge about held up traffic and wasted taxes!

Speaking for myself, I wouldn't much care. It's unbelievably stupid to allow your emotions to be dictated by what people post on some internet forum. Get over it.

I would LOVE to see the comments if we had a similar to ogrish thread on here

It'd be pretty hypocritical for people to come into a thread they knew they wouldn't like and then whine about it

A lot of people aren't that bothered by gore threads, it's one of those 'meh, been there, seen that' things if you've been on enough sites.

Half of this lot have probably never come across nice real life news.
I enjoy it, jesus, imagine posting a photo of someone under a truck on here? It`s bad enough just posting a photo of a front door or a police car lol.

Lighten up people, this is reality, wake up!!!

It puzzles me. I see these threads get posted 'some dude jumped off the bridge' and there's people doing the whole RIP/Praying for his family. I mean seriously, why bother? Family doesn't know and wouldn't care if they did and it's pointless feeling sorry for the guy if he's dead.

Then someone comes along and posts the person's name and everyone has a shitfit about how privacy must be respected and omg what if someone logs in and sees these comments. Shit is totally whack. I'm going to go back to SA or /b/ where people don't fake half their posts so they stay on the good side of the whiners

It amazes me how persistently some people come on these threads purely to slagg off any people that show compassion to others.

There's a difference between compassion and idiocy. I'm all for compassion where it's appropriate. Here doesn't seem like the place. It makes zero difference and the people here are WAY too uptight. You see the same people posting the same comments in every sad thread because they need people to see them in a certain light. It's just lame. I'm sure some people are sincere but nowhere near all of them.

Personally, I get annoyed by suicides. If you're that determined to do it, do it somewhere that you're not going to inconvenience others or make a mess.

I've been to houses where people have killed themselves and not been discovered for weeks and it's not pleasant, but I'd rather that than have people putting others at risk by jumping off bridges, buildings, the pier etc or putting others at an inconvenience.

Those that tell others they're going to kill themselves are as bad IMO. If you're serious, JFDI! Don't go on Forums or into Chat Rooms on sites and bore us all. I'd say probably 98% of those that say they're going to do it don't, and 98% of those that do it didn't tell anyone their plans. JMPO.

Having worked in A&E and seen the same faces coming in with "overdoses" that transpire to be only 10 paracetamol or "cuts" (more like a scratch) across the wrist, it bores me now. If you're serious, cut UPWARDS and don't bother with paracetamol - it's a slow, painful death.

Thank fook there are more normal people out there

Couldn't agree anymore than I do, with that specific line.
well said wench.