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Senate panel advances bill to pilot suicide barriers on San Bernardino freeway overpasses
Summary
The Senate Transportation Committee voted to pass SB 800 to appropriations after testimony about recent suicides near Rancho Cucamonga; the bill would require Caltrans to install deterrents on 10 high‑risk overpasses in San Bernardino County as a pilot program.
Senator Cervantes presented SB 800, a Reyes‑authored bill that would establish a Caltrans pilot to install suicide deterrents on 10 freeway overpasses in San Bernardino County.
The bill was prompted by a cluster of recent incidents in Rancho Cucamonga, including two high school students who died within 10 days of one another. Christine Scott, a Rancho Cucamonga city council member, told the committee: "In the past six months alone, there have been four suicides and five additional…
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