{"id":6940,"date":"2024-11-23T17:31:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T17:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=6940"},"modified":"2024-11-23T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T17:31:27","slug":"13-truck-drivers-turn-heads-after-blocking-highway-to-form-safety-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/?p=6940","title":{"rendered":"13 Truck Drivers Turn Heads After Blocking Highway To Form \u2018Safety Net\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_7919.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_7919.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_7919-300x255.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Note: we are republishing this story, which originally made the news in April 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detroit police received a call about a man threatening to kill himself by jumping off an overpass on the Interstate 696. Responding to the scene with negotiators, officers devised an unexpected contingency plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just after 1 a.m., Michigan State Police began flagging down semi trucks. The trucks were organized into a row beneath the bridge to reduce the distance the man would fall if he decided to jump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truckers lined up across the east-bound lanes of the highway, with police closing the west-bound lanes as more semi-trucks arrived. 13 big rig truck drivers remained parked under the overpass for several hours until the man was safely escorted to a nearby hospital by police<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The post added: \u201cAlso in that photo is a man struggling with the decision to take his own life. Please remember help is available through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trucks line up to help stop suicide attempt on Michigan freeway\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F7N0n598kcU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: we are republishing this story, which originally made the news in April 2018. Detroit police received a call about a man threatening to kill himself by&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6942,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940\/revisions\/6942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinenews92.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}