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A 29-year-old man is dead after falling from Kentucky’s Clay Wade Bailey Bridge.
The Covington Police Departmentidentified the manin a press release on Monday as Cincinnati resident William J. Ramos II, who was spotted walking alongside the bridge’s roadway at around 2 a.m.
According to the release, Ramos sat on a concrete divider as the responding officer got out of his patrol car but then “suddenly fell over the edge.”
The department added that Ramos fell to a parking lot underneath the bridge, and an ambulance was called to assist. After the fall, the Criminal Investigation Bureau and a crime lab were called to investigate. The department shared that “the fall appears to have been an accident and alcohol is believed to have been a factor.”
“Our thoughts are with the family as they grieve their loss,” said the Covington Police Department in Monday’s release.
According to the World Health Organization, approximately 13.5 percent of deaths in people ages 20 to 39are attributable to alcohol.
“Alcohol consumption is a causal factor in more than 200 diseases, injuries and other health conditions,” the agency states on its website. “A significant proportion of the disease burden attributable to alcohol consumption arises from unintentional and intentional injuries, including those due to road traffic crashes, violence, and suicide. Fatal alcohol-related injuries tend to occur inrelatively younger age groups.”
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From 2000 through 2018, the rise had never increased at a rate higher than 7 percent year over year,according to NBC News.
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