Neuner, T. and Huebner-Liebermann, B. and Klein, H. E. and Hajak, G. and Spiessl, H. (2009) I drive to the bridge! How safety fences on bridges prevent suicides. NERVENHEILKUNDE, 28 (8). pp. 553-554. ISSN 0722-1541,
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Placing safety fences on bridges has turned out to be effective in prevention of suicides by jumping. We report the experience of a patient which wanted to attempt suicide by jumping from a motorway bridge after a safety fence had been established there. The safety fence had been experienced by the patient as effective obstacle to jumping from the bridge. The patient found no possibility to overcome the safety fence and returned to the motorway car park wherefrom she was brought back to the hospital by the police. In view of the increasing proportion of suicides by jumping from a height, the placing of safety fences on bridges or other "hot spots" is recommended as part of a comprehensive suicide prevention.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | BARRIERS; Suicide; bridge; safety fence |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Oct 2020 07:40 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2020 07:40 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/29817 |
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