Campaigner rescues teenager from Itchen Bridge dressed as cone
Danny Carter, 35, was on the bridge as part of a suicide prevention campaign.
Shortly after 5pm today a girl was seen climbing onto the railings of the bridge before the celebrity hairstylist sprinted across the road and bear hugged the teen, pulling her to safety.
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Hampshire police arrived at the scene moments later and the 17-year-old was taken to police custody.
Speaking to the Echo moments after the heroic rescue, Danny said: "I was walking up to do the awareness just literally this evening for fun.
"It was to try and raise some awareness, have a little bit of a laugh to say thank you for everything that [supporters] have done.
"I'm walking up and I see in my distance someone walking backwards and forwards.
"With that kind of walk, you know they're thinking so I intervene, I run across and as I've got not even half way across this road, she's got on top of the railings.
"I just bear hugged her to the ground — and I'm dressed as a traffic cone.
"It's every day and this is why I've said for the last fortnight, the patrols need to be here.
"It upsets me to see that a young girl of 17 thought that was her only way out.
READ MORE: Itchen Bridge lined with suicide prevention campaigners
"All it takes is two people to patrol this bridge rather than two people patrolling the city centre looking for fag butts on the floor.
"It's horrific. I'm so sorry, it was meant to be fun."
Danny is in the process of raising money on GoFundMe, where he hopes to open a mobile coffee shop created out of a renovated shipping container, called Coffee Mate, beside the Itchen Bridge where people will have access to drink and snacks and a warm place to sit.
He added: "I want to get as much awareness as possible that we need this her. Today we have reached our £5,000 target."
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