Woman jumps from 23rd floor - and survives

Woman jumps from 23rd floor - and survives

A woman threw herself from the 23rd storey of a Buenos Aires hotel on Monday - and survived.The woman landed in a sitting position on the roof of a taxi, The driver got out just before the impact deeply dented his roof and shattered the windshield.The woman, a 30-year-old Argentine, has injuries throughout her body and is being treated in the emergency room of the Hotel Argerich, said Alberto Crescenti, director of Argentina's Emergency Medical System.

The woman lying over the taxi after falling from the 23 floor of the hotel in Buenos AiresThe 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.Another taxi driver, Juan Carlos Candame, told AP Television News that he saw the woman climb over a barrier and jump into the void."I looked up and I saw a girl that was going over the railing while another person was talking to her," Candame said."Then she walked to the edge, went back to talk to the other person, then she turned around and jumped."The woman fell from the top of the Hotel Crown Plaza Panamericano, where a restaurant overlooks the landmark Obelisk in downtown Buenos Aires.
Source: APPublished Jan 25 2011