 They could not determine if the phones were functional when a March 5, 2017 suicide, the first since the phones were installed, occurred.The phones were found to be out of order on June 23, 2017, when an abandoned car on the bridge resulted in a search of the Penobscot River by authorities looking for its driver.The bridge was closed for the first time on December 29, 2013 after ice chunks began falling from the support cables onto the bridge deck.