Mother Throws Children, Herself Off Overpass
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DALLAS — Driving to her job at a landscaping company on Interstate 30, Sondra Plunk saw a young boy fall from an overpass and land in the lane next to her.
“I saw his face,” she said. “I saw the fear in his face.” The boy and his brother were tossed from the overpass east of downtown Dallas yesterday, allegedly by their mother, who then made the two-story jump herself. Somehow, all of them survived dropping into the fast lane of morning rush hour traffic. Ms. Plunk said the boy she saw fall ended up in the path of a van, which fishtailed as its driver slammed on the brakes and swerved.
