![]() ![]() Currents beneath the bridge are very strong, and some jumpers have undoubtedly been washed out to sea without ever being seen. People have been known to travel to San Francisco specifically to jump off the bridge, and may take a bus or cab to the site police sometimes find abandoned rental cars in the parking lot. ![]() There is no accurate figure on the number of suicides or completed jumps since 1937, because many were not witnessed. ![]() The California Highway Patrol removed 70 apparently suicidal people from the bridge that year. There were 34 bridge-jump suicides in 2006 whose bodies were recovered, in addition to four jumps that were witnessed but whose bodies were never recovered, and several bodies recovered suspected to be from bridge jumps. For comparison, the reported second-most-popular place to commit suicide in the world, Aokigahara Forest in Japan, has a record of 78 bodies, found within the forest in 2002, with an average of 30 a year. By 2005, this count exceeded 1,200 and new suicides were occurring about once every two weeks. The side facing the Pacific is closed to pedestrians.Īn official suicide count is kept, sorted according to which of the bridge's 128 lamp posts the jumper was nearest when he or she jumped. Most suicidal jumps occur on the side facing the bay. The few who survive the initial impact generally drown or die of hypothermia in the cold water. Most jumpers die from impact trauma on contact with the water. After a fall of approximately four seconds, jumpers hit the water at around 75 mph or approximately 120 km/h. The deck is approximately 245 feet (75 m) above the water. More people die by suicide at the Golden Gate Bridge than at any other site in the world (see List of suicide sites). ![]()
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