Huddersfield, UK - An unemployed man jumped to his death on to a busy motorway after struggling to find work, an inquest heard.
Jonathan Swift, 37, died instantly when he plummeted from Brown Cow Bridge on to the M62 motorway on July 15 last year. His body was found underneath the bridge.
The Huddersfield inquest heard that Mr Swift, of Dewsbury, had worked as a technical manager for Batley firm HM Doors but had been made redundant in February.
He had struggled to find work and was in a large amount of debt, which left him feeling depressed.
The inquest heard that father-of-one Mr Swift had gone for a job interview in Leeds the morning that he died but was told that there were no job opportunities available for him.
Hours later, road sweeper John Warley saw him standing on the bridge as he was cleaning Scammonden Road.
He said: “As I turned to go over the bridge I saw a bloke walking about on the bridge, he was walking back and forth and kept looking over the railings at the traffic.
“He then grabbed hold of the railings, pulled himself up and went over. I drove to the entrance end of the bridge and noticed a silver Vauxhall Vectra parked there, which I thought must have been his.”
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