Police closed the Dorchester bypass after a man threatened to jump from a footbridge today.
Trained negotiators were called to the Queenford Bridge over the A4074 at Dorchester at around 1.20pm.
Officers closed the road between Berinsfield and Shillingford until the man was safely removed from the bridge at 2.50pm.
No one was arrested and the man was placed in the care of Oxford and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust.
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