A FedEx driver miraculously survived a 75-foot fall from a highway bridge in North Carolina after pulling over to help someone.
Cribb got out of his vehicle, but the situation quickly grew dangerous, as cars drove by quickly in the dark. He jumped off the highway to avoid being hit by a car, thinking he would land on a median.Man survives 75-foot fall off bridge in Salisbury, N.C.“It was so pitch black and dark I couldn't see it," Cribb told WCNC on Wednesday."I didn’t know when I jumped I was actually going to be falling 75 feet down.
When first responders found Cribb he was not only alive, but conscious. They rescued him using a rope and harness to carry him back up to the road. “I was not supposed to get up," Cribb told a WCNC reporter."Right now, I’m not supposed to be talking to you guys." He has a collapsed lung and some fractured ribs from the fall and is expected to remain in the hospital for a few days to recover.
Nicholas Martin of the Salisbury, North Carolina Fire Department called Cribb's survival"entirely miraculous."Ben Kesslen
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