DICKINSON, N.D. - A 32-year-old man reportedly jumped from a bridge on Highway 85 Monday afternoon, landing on Interstate 94, according to the North Dakota Highway Patrol.
The man survived the fall and was transported to St. Alexius Medical Center in Bismarck, said NDHP Capt. Tony Huck.
He estimated the man fell between 20 and 25 feet.
The man was a Utah resident who had been working in Killdeer, Huck said.
The man was unconscious but breathing when he was taken to the hospital, Huck said.
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"It appears that there was a little bit of a quarrel between a husband and wife at Belfield at Cenex," Huck said. "He went up to that bridge that goes over the interstate by Belfield and jumped off the west side of the bridge into the eastbound lanes."
Huck said the man's wife called authorities and reported the man was threatening to jump off the bridge. The NDHP, Stark County Sheriff's Department and Bowman County Sheriff's office responded, Huck said.
"He walked up there once, he came back and talked to her (his wife), and then he walked up there again," Huck said. "As he was going up there the second time the officer had arrived there, but he went past the officer and went up to the bridge and jumped off."
He said authorities blocked traffic until the ambulance took the man to the hospital.
Hospital officials were only allowing phone calls from family to be transferred to the man's room on Tuesday.
