A 19-year-old man suspected of stealing a car fell to his death on the George Washington Bridge while fleeing NYPD cops early Sunday, officials said.
Officers from the Bronx’s 52nd Precinct assigned to a public safety team tried to pull the man over for driving in a stolen car at about 1:30 a.m., cops said. An NYPD spokesman could not immediately provide the location of the traffic stop.
The suspect sped off, making it to Broadway and W. 20th St. in Inwood, where the car broke down, cops said. He abandoned the vehicle and sprinted on to the George Washington Bridge roadway against traffic on the Manhattan-bound side of the span, cops said.
The man then “fell from an elevated position,” an NYPD spokesman said. The spokesman didn’t have specifics on where the man landed.
Medics took the man to Harlem Hospital, where he died of his injuries, cops said. His name was not immediately released.
