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An 80-year-old woman not only survived a six story fall on to the roof of a car, she was able to get up and walk away on her own power. At least that’s the story Russian media outlet E1.RU is telling.
The accident reportedly happened earlier this month in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The woman was cleaning windows the windows in her sixth floor apartment when, apparently, she lost her footing and fell.
Now there is no doubting that she fell on top of a car as CCTV cameras caught her very hard landing on top of a Hyundai hatchback car. And when the video cuts out she is definitely still alive. That’s strange enough.
The story gets even weirder because E1.RU says the 80-year-old woman eventually was able to right herself, climb off of the smashed vehicle, went to visit a neighbor to tell them what happened, and was later admitted to a local hospital as a precaution, but was otherwise unscathed.
“During the investigation, it was preliminarily established that the elderly woman fell from the window due to carelessness,” a police spokesperson said, according to DailyMail.com. “The victim was hospitalized in a medical center and is receiving necessary assistance. The police are still investigating the case.”
The owner of the car that was crushed by the fall told local reporters, “I saw her lying in my car through the window. They said she was a neighbor from the sixth floor. I have lived in this house for 12 years, I have never seen her before, and I do not know these neighbors.”
It appears on the video that the woman landed absolutely perfectly, the way a stunt person would have, on the car. Then the car absorbed a lot of the impact, much like a SAFER barrier does at NASCAR and IndyCar races when cars slam into race track walls.
“Not only was she lucky to ‘fall right,’ but had she been any further toward the building, the back of her head would likely hit the frame supporting the truck – almost certainly fatal,” one person who viewed the video commented.
“Similarly, had she or the car been shifted a foot (or possible less) either left or right, she would have landed again on the frame, which would also have been fatal, or at least, she would have sustained far far worse injuries.”