BOCA RATON — A woman was taken by ambulance to Delray Medical Center after jumping from an overpass onto I-95 in Boca Raton, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
"She's talking and conscious, but has some fractures," said FHP spokesman Lt. Tim Frith.
Officer Sandra Boonenberg, spokeswoman for the Boca Raton Police Department, said the woman is expected to survive. Boonenberg declined to give the woman's name but said she has been detained for mental evaluation under the state's Baker Act.
Around 7:40 a.m., the woman was on the Spanish River Boulevard overpass of I-95 when commuters saw her jump onto "a car that was almost stopped" in the northbound lanes of the busy highway, Frith said.
The accident temporarily closed some of the I-95 northbound lanes near Glades Road, according to the highway patrol.
Staff Writer Julius Whigham II contributed to this report.
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