Updated: Off-Duty Officer Pulls Woman from Tappan Zee Railings

• Note: This article has been updated from when it was originally published:

At 2:34 p.m. Friday, Tarrytown Sgt. John Gardner had just finished his shift and was on his way home from work, when he noticed a young woman leaning over the railings on the northbound side of the Tappan Zee Bridge, Tarrytown Police Chief Scott Brown said. 

"At first he thought she was ill," Brown said. "But when he attempted to approach her, the woman stepped up as if to jump."

Gardner pulled the woman from the railings and restrained her, Brown said. At the same time, an off-duty NYPD officer was also crossing the bridge and stopped to help handcuff the woman.

New York State Police and the Tarrytown Volunteer Ambulance Corps. responded.

The potential jumper was taken to the Westchester Medical Center for treatment.

Troopers were still at the scene following the incident, saying that there had been at least two accidents involving five cars on the southbound side of the bridge.

They said the minor crashes were most likely due to rubber-necking. 

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