History Main / OffBridgeOntoVehicle

* [[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]] jumps from a bridge onto a barge in ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'' during the foot chase in Berlin. This [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome gets his leg injured]], as he has a limp for the remainder of the film as a result, though he still manages to escape from his pursuers. The barge is slow and the cops quickly call it to stop, so Bourne just sneaks out by climbing underneath the bridge.

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In the final episode of the Cabbie Killer's arc, Mac & Flack have apparently cornered the perp near the top of a grain bin at a brewery, but the guy jumps before they reach him and lands on the canvas top of a passing semi truck, eluding capture for a bit longer.

* On ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' team [[ClassyCatBurglar thief]] Parker does this when cornered by a security guard at a company they are infiltrating. She back flips off the balcony and hangs on below by her fingertips.

* ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'': When some car thieves pull onto a busy Gotham freeway Tim takes a shortcut to a bridge over it in his Redbird and then leaps down onto the truck they're driving.

** Subverted in "Stray Dog Strut". Spike and Hakim both jump after Ein when the dog jumps off a bridge onto the canvas covering of a boat passing underneath it. But Ein turns around and jumps into Spike, so that the two of them fall into the canal while Hakim lands on the boat, tearing through the canvas covering and falling into a tank filled with live crabs.
** Played straight in "Boogie Woogie Feng Shui". Jet and the girl jump off the top of a stone wall and land on a passing bus to avoid the two pursuing gunmen.

* In ''Webcomic/AMiracleOfScience'' Benjamin and Caprice ride their motorcycle off the reservoir embankment and [[https://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos038.html onto a passing train]] in order to escape some robots. Notably the timing is only possible because [[GeniusLoci Mars]] is providing suppot to get the timing right.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}''; if there's a bridge over a river or train tracks, chances are Kiryu will have a Heat Action to pick up a mook he's fighting and toss him onto a passing mode of transportation. If the guy's lucky, he lands on the roof and gets carried off to the next city, never to be seen again. If he's unlucky, he lands [[GroinAttack crotch first]] onto the prow of the boat, toppling into the river in pain while Kiryu gets back to clobbering his buddies

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "Boogie Woogie Feng Shui". Jet and the girl jump off the top of a stone wall and land on a passing bus to avoid the two pursuing gunmen.

* [[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]] jumps from a bridge onto a barge in ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'' during the foot chase in Berlin. This [[RealityEnsues gets his leg injured]], as he has a limp for the remainder of the film as a result, though he still manages to escape from his pursuers. The barge is slow and the cops quickly call it to stop, so Bourne just sneaks out by climbing underneath the bridge.

* In ''Film/BatmanReturns'', Batman knocks Catwoman of the roof of a building, only for her to escape when she lands in the back of a truck full of sand.

* In the scene that introduces him in ''Film/MenInBlack'', [[Creator/WillSmith James]] chases down a perp (actually an alien in disguise) who jumps off the elevated Park Avenue Viaduct onto 42nd Street, at least a 15-foot (4.5-meter) drop onto hard asphalt below without so much as a tweaked ankle. Instead of just
watching the perp get away, James jumps down after said perp by waiting for a double-decker open-top tour bus full of {{Japanese Tourist}}s to pass underneath the bridge before jumping on it and getting down that way to continue the chase.

* In the video for Creator/{{Shaggy}}'s "It Wasn't Me", Shaggy directs Rik to jump off a bridge and onto a passing truck he's arranged to pass underneath in order to escape Rik's vengeful girlfriend on whom he has just been caught cheating.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' does this [[HorseOfADifferentColor with chocobos]] at one point when the party need to escape a castle that’s been set on fire.

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' Dimo launches himself off the pitched roof of a three story train station onto the snowy roof of the caboose on a departing train.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''; in the episode "The Clock King", the titular villain escapes from Batman in their first encounter by jumping from a bridge onto a passing train, which being a ScheduleFanatic he knew would pass under that bridge at that exact moment.

* In the scene that introduces him in ''Film/MenInBlack'', [[Creator/WillSmith James]] chases down a perp (actually an alien in disguise) who jumps off the elevated Park Avenue Viaduct onto 42nd Street, at least a 15-foot (4.5-meter) drop onto hard asphalt below without so much as a tweaked ankle. Instead of just watching the perp get away, James jumps down after said perp by waiting for a double-decker open-top tour bus full of {{Japanese Tourist}}s to pass underneath the bridge before jumping on it and getting down that way to continue the chase.

* [[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]] jumps from a bridge onto a barge in ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'' during the foot chase in Berlin. This gets his leg injured, as he has a limp for the remainder of the film as a result, though he still manages to escape from his pursuers.
* ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid''. Butch and Sundance are forced to jump off a cliff to escape a pursuing posse: they land in a river and are carried away downstream.

* [[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]] jumps from a bridge onto a riverboat in ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'' during the foot chase in Berlin. This gets his leg injured, as he has a limp for the remainder of the film as a result.

* In ''Film/MissFisherAndTheCryptOfTears'', Phryne and Shirin escape from the Palestinian police by jumping off the top of tunnel on to a train that is passing underneath.

* Wolf attempts to pull it off in an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOjVeqTMn9k episode]] of ''Animation/NuPogodi'', jumping off a bridge to land on his runaway motorcycle. He just barely misses.

* In ''Film/HardTarget'', Chance and Nat escape from Fouchard, Van Cleaf and their mooks by jumping of a bridge onto a freight train passing underneath.

* In Chapter 3 of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' by Creator/TelltaleGames, Lee and Omid are forced to from an overpass onto the train because of a oncoming herd of Walkers.

* Played with in ''Film/MenInBlack'' during the ColdOpening, when [[Creator/WillSmith James]] is seen chasing a perp who jumps onto a tour bus full of {{Japanese Tourist}}s. Instead of watching the perp get away, James jumps down after said perp.

* Played with in ''Film/MenInBlack'' during the ColdOpening, when Jay is seen chasing a perp who jumps onto a tour bus full of {{Japanese Tourist}}s. Instead of watching the perp get away, Jay jumps down after said perp.