[kellyhound]

A young woman has survived a 23-storey fall from a hotel in downtown Buenos Aires, after a taxi broke her fall.

The woman, who the Global Post says has not been identified, had thrown herself off the hotel balcony in an apparent suicide bid – but her attempt failed, when a taxi caught in traffic below cushioned her fall.

The impact of her landing on the car shattered its windscreen and made a huge dent in its roof – but the impact was not hard enough to end her life.

Instead, the 30-year-old woman was left with broken hips, ribs and significant internal bleeding.

The driver of the taxi, Miguel Cajal, told that he noticed policemen stopping traffic as they were looking upward, and had jumped out of his car only by instinct.

“I got out of the car a second before. If I had not got out, I would have been killed,”.
The impact, he added, “made a terrible noise.”

Another taxi driver said he saw the woman stand at the railing of the balcony at the Hotel Crown Plaza Panamericano talking to another person, before she clambered over its railings and jumped off.

[Jere]

these ones are the coolest when everybody gets to stand there and see the dummy who jumped close up

[Faline]

I read this in yesterdays paper. Hopefully her survival may make her realise she is meant to be here and she will go on to do something good with her life.

[The Last Nephilim]

A failed suicide attempt by an already suicidal person must really fuck with them. "My life is so bad that I can't even kill myself properly".

[XZER0]

yea, that woulda hurt the driver

[keystona]

it wasn't her time to go....

[ro4eva]

Taxi!

[Shylock]

Fuck

[Luu_gore]

yeah, It happended in my country and we couldn't believe it e_e

[GODREKR]

Jan 25 2011
A 33-year-old woman who fell off a 23-storey hotel in Buenos Aires has survived after landing on top of a parked taxi.

Doctors say the woman, who has not been identified, suffered fractured ribs, broken ribs and internal bleeding when she landed in a seated position.

Taxi driver Miguel Cajal said he narrowly escaped being killed after leaving the taxi when he saw a policeman looking at something in the air.

He said he also looked up and saw the woman falling when he fled the vehicle.