Bridge death leap

A MOTORIST took a 135-foot death leap into the East River from the Whitestone Bridge on Tuesday, police said.

The 44-year-old man drove onto the span, stopped his car and jumped over the bridge’s railing just before 7 a.m., witnesses told police.

Harbor units pulled the man from the chilly water and brought him to a wharf off of Malba Drive in Queens, where an ambulance was waiting.

He was rushed to Flushing Hospital, where he died.