A lover's spat between two gay men driving over the George Washington Bridge ended in tragedy yesterday when the driver stopped the vehicle mid-span and dived headfirst into the Hudson River, police and witnesses said."It was terrible, just terrible — something awful to see," said Gus Guerra, who was in his boat under the bridge and got to the victim first. "He was shaking a bit and moving in the water when I pulled him out. His face was pretty bad and blood was coming out of his ears."
The jumper, 45, was pronounced dead a short time later.
The nightmarish drama began at 11:30 a.m., when the two men got into an argument as they headed toward New Jersey on the upper level.
Police said the driver pulled the car over by the bridge's New York tower, climbed over the railing and took a 220-foot dive.
Guerra, a mechanic at a marina, said a cop told him the driver had flipped out during an argument with his lover.
"He landed head first. He looked pretty rough. There was no way he could have survived," Guerra said.
Police withheld the man's name pending notification of next of kin.
from New York Post
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