A WOMAN determined to take her own life plunged 35-feet to her death from a motorway bridge in Whitefield.
An inquest on Wednesday was told that Mrs Joan Morris (50) was on the Philips Park bridge over the M62 when she either climbed over the safety guard or leaned over them in January.
Her body was struck by two vehicles with one driver believing the body to be just a mere "sack of rubbish" or a blanket.
Mrs Morris suffered from compulsory obsessive behaviour and would become sick if she heard words which contained certain vowels and consonants. She had been treated by six psychiatrists.
She was on home leave from Fairfield Hospital's psychiatric unit when she left her Limefield Road home in Radcliffe - her husband and her son were in the house - and was seen walking towards the Whitefield area.
Bury coroner Mr Barrie William, recorded a verdict of suicide and said that Mrs Morris, despite never having threatened suicide, was "determined on a course of action" which was consistent with an intention to take her own life.
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