HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut State Police say an 83-year-old Maryland man has died after falling off an elevated highway in Hartford while trying to help another driver whose SUV had rolled over.
Troopers say Richard Herron of Elkton, Md., jumped over the center median of Interstate 84 eastbound early Monday morning to avoid a tractor-trailer that was nearing the accident scene and didn’t realize there was a 35-foot drop. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
Authorities say the other driver, 45-year-old Sheila Jenkins of Hartford, was traveling too fast around a curve on the wet highway and lost control of her vehicle at about 3 a.m. State police say she was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
The accident and Herron’s fall remain under investigation.
A nice man who is trying to help dies because some idiot doesn’t know how to operate her motor vehicle.
Do sad thoughts and prayers
So sad
R.I.P.
very sad. Speed kills.
This is the saddest story… but I would rather be doing something good for someone and meet my maker, than doing something wrong….. certainly better than a long illness… God Bless Him.
Wow she was driving to fast caused her accident. Someone trying to be nice dies and she just has minor injuries. How messed up is that,sometimes it doesn’t pay to be nice.