Woman, 25, Survives Jump From George Washington Bridge

FORT LEE, NJ - A 25-year-old New Jersey woman amazingly survived a 200-foot plunge from the George Washington Bridge Tuesday, police said.

Someone saw the Somerset County resident jump from the bridge, said Port Authority spokesman Joseph Pentangelo. The woman was seen at about 5 p.m. treading water north of the New York base of the bridge.

A boat chartered by New Square Emergency Medical Services that was in the area and pulled the woman from the water, Pentangelo said.

The woman suffered a severe leg injury, The New York Daily News reported. It was unclear whether or not the leg could be saved.

An ambulance took the woman to St. Luke’s Hospital, Pentangelo said. Her Saturn was found on Fort Washington Avenue in Manhattan.

Surviving such a fall is extremely rare. In 2009, a 29-year-old Massachusetts man survived after jumping from the bridge’s lower level and then swam to the New Jersey shore, The Daily News reported.

Police confirmed that 18 suicides were committed from the bridge in 2014 and again in 2015.