Monday, January 24, 2011

Woman Falls 23 Stories and Lives: Good Luck All Around

Now this is the kind of thing that has you thinking about people being protected by a Higher Power sometimes.

The woman landed in a sitting position on the roof of a taxi whose driver got out just before the impact deeply dented his roof and shattered the windshield.

The woman, a 30-year-old Argentine, was rushed to the nearby Hospital Argerich, where she was being operated on for injuries including internal bleeding and broken hips and ribs, Alberto Crescenti, director of Argentina's Emergency Medical System, told the government news agency Telam. He estimated that she fell nearly 100 meters (330 feet).

What is even more lucky is she didn't kill the taxi driver of the car she fell on. This is just luck (or Divine intervention) to the Nth degree.

The taxi driver, Miguel Cajal, told the C5N television station that he jumped out of the car because he saw a policeman stopping traffic and looking up. Moments later, the driver's side of the car was smashed by the woman's body.

So this guy sees a cop looking up and stopping traffic. Instead of just leaning out the window like some people would do or just ignoring the cop he jumped out of the car. That one moment of curiosity probably saved this guys like. I wonder if he had some sort of premonition or something that told him to vacate the vehicle? In any case I'm glad everyone made it through.

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