Oz woman survives six-storey car park plunge
April 4th, 2011 - 1:38 pm ICT by ANIMelbourne, Apr 4 (ANI): A woman miraculously survived after her car plunged six storeys off a Melbourne carpark.
The silver station wagon crashed from the sixth level of the car park just before 9am and fell into Anthony Lane, off Anthony Street, between Elizabeth and Queen streets.
“There wasn’t just one crash, there was a series of them,” the Age quoted a local resident, Michael Rockefeller, as saying.
“It sounded like a truck crashing,” he said.
The car landed wedged at ground level between the walls of the car park and another building, its wheels jutting into the lane. It was badly damaged.
The driver was freed about 30 minutes later after a desperate effort by firefighters and paramedics to cut her from the wreck.
The car hit the sides of neighbouring buildings on its way down, which police and fire crews believe may have saved her life.
Ambulance Victoria spokesman Paul Bentley said the woman suffered a serious cut to the top of her head, and was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition.
But he said the woman, thought to be in her 40s, was “incredibly lucky” not to have suffered more serious injuries.
“Paramedics had to squeeze in between walls and the car to get to the woman to start treating her while she was in the car,” Bentley added. (ANI)
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