A weekend excursion turned fatal when a 21-year-old university student, Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, plunged 40 metres from a bridge. Bystanders looked on in shock, screaming 'the rope' as the woman was launched without safety harnesses during an extreme sport activity at Limeira's Skeleton Bridge on 13 June.
The student, who lived in Jandira within the São Paulo metropolitan area, had booked the excursion to experience a pendulum-style fall. Instead, investigators say a suspected failure to attach her safety rope turned the jump into a fatal fall, prompting criminal investigations and public disbelief.
