![]() ![]() The permanent barrier has now been completed throughout the span of the bridge. In February 2009, following the murder of a four-year-old girl who was thrown off the bridge by her father, the first stage of a temporary suicide barrier was erected on Westgate Bridge, constructed of concrete crash barriers topped with a welded mesh fence. Sydney Harbour Bridge has a suicide prevention barrier. The Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Mooney Mooney Bridge on the Central Coast (New South Wales), and the Westgate Bridge in Melbourne, Australia and the Story Bridge in Brisbane are considered suicide bridges. Special telephones with connections to crisis hotlines are sometimes installed on bridges.īridges Australia Free telephones linked to suicide prevention hotline installed at the Story Bridge footpath in Brisbane Suicide prevention barrier at the Story Bridge in Brisbane ![]() One such barrier is the Luminous Veil on the Prince Edward Viaduct in Toronto, Canada, once considered North America's second deadliest bridge, with over 400 jumps on record. Families affected and groups that help the mentally ill have lobbied governments to erect similar barriers. A similar result was seen when barriers were erected on the popular suicide bridge: the Clifton Suspension Bridge, in the United Kingdom. One study showed that installing barriers on the Duke Ellington Bridge in Washington, D.C.-which has a high incidence of suicide -did not cause an increase of suicides at the nearby Taft Bridge. Suicide prevention advocates believe that suicide by bridge is more likely to be impulsive than other means, and that barriers can have a significant effect on reducing the incidence of suicides by bridge. ![]()
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