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Woman tries to commit suicide, but survives 23 floor fall
Malaysia Sun
Tuesday 25th January, 2011
A woman who appears to have attempted suicide by jumping from the 23rd floor of a Buenos Aires hotel survived after a taxi parked beneath her.
A young woman in Argentina has survived after falling 23-storeys from a restaurant near the top of a hotel in Buenos Aires.
According to eye witness reports, the woman climbed over a safety barrier and leapt from the Hotel Crown Plaza Panamericano in an apparent suicide attempt.
Her fall was broken by a taxi that had just parked near the entrance to the hotel.
“I got out of the car a second before. If I had not got out, I would have been killed,” said the driver, named as Miguel by local media outlets. He was speaking to Radio 10 and added that the impact had made a terrible noise.
The taxi’s roof was crushed and the windscreen shattered, but the woman, said to be in her early 20s, survived.
She was rushed to hospital where she has been stabilised in intensive care and is suffering from multiple injuries.
The position at which the taxi stopped was a stroke of extraordinary good luck, say authorities. Had she hit the ground with nothing to absorb the impact, she would certainly have died.
Woman tries to commit suicide, but survives 23 floor fall
Malaysia Sun
Tuesday 25th January, 2011
A woman who appears to have attempted suicide by jumping from the 23rd floor of a Buenos Aires hotel survived after a taxi parked beneath her.
A young woman in Argentina has survived after falling 23-storeys from a restaurant near the top of a hotel in Buenos Aires.
According to eye witness reports, the woman climbed over a safety barrier and leapt from the Hotel Crown Plaza Panamericano in an apparent suicide attempt.
Her fall was broken by a taxi that had just parked near the entrance to the hotel.
“I got out of the car a second before. If I had not got out, I would have been killed,” said the driver, named as Miguel by local media outlets. He was speaking to Radio 10 and added that the impact had made a terrible noise.
The taxi’s roof was crushed and the windscreen shattered, but the woman, said to be in her early 20s, survived.
She was rushed to hospital where she has been stabilised in intensive care and is suffering from multiple injuries.
The position at which the taxi stopped was a stroke of extraordinary good luck, say authorities. Had she hit the ground with nothing to absorb the impact, she would certainly have died.
