A FedEx driver miraculously survived a 75-foot fall from a highway bridge in North Carolina after pulling over to help someone.
Jeremiah Cribb, 24, was driving for FedEx on Wednesday morning when he saw someone in need of help on 1-85, a major highway that runs through the Southeast, NBC Charlotte affiliate WCNC reported.
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Cribb got out of his vehicle, but the situation quickly grew dangerous, as cars drove by quickly in the dark. He jumped off the highway to avoid being hit by a car, thinking he would land on a median.
Instead, he fell 75 feet off the Yadkin River Bridge and landed on dirt.
“It was so pitch black and dark I couldn’t see it,” Cribb told WCNC on Wednesday. “I didn’t know when I jumped I was actually going to be falling 75 feet down.”
When first responders found Cribb he was not only alive, but conscious. They rescued him using a rope and harness to carry him back up to the road.
“I was not supposed to get up,” Cribb told a WCNC reporter. “Right now, I’m not supposed to be talking to you guys.” He has a collapsed lung and some fractured ribs from the fall and is expected to remain in the hospital for a few days to recover.
Nicholas Martin of the Salisbury, North Carolina Fire Department called Cribb’s survival “entirely miraculous.”
“We would not anticipate the outcome from such a fall would be so positive,” he said to WCNC.
