Q for people living in Newcastle or Gateshead (England)?

Question

I've heard of people jumping (or threating) to jump off the Tyne bridge. How often does it happen (every week, couple of times a year)?

Just out of interest. Just wondering if the bridge would be classed as a "suicide hotspot" or not.

Answer 1

People do threaten to jump off the Tyne Bridge quite often, but actual jumpers are probably only once or twice a year.

Them that do for attention do it quite regularly. Another place is also Armstrong Bridge, I remember a few years ago a Mother took her disabled child and jumped with him... tragic.

Answer 2

Where on earth have you got this information? I would have thought that ' a very rare occurance' would have been a more apt description.
If there was any sort of a 'hotspot' for suicides in North East England (pushing it a bit), it would be Valley Gardens Bridge in Scarborough, but I would think that even that averaged out at far less than one per year.