An Argentinean woman jumped from the 23rd floor of the Hotel Panamericano in Buenos Aires yesterday in an obvious suicide attempt, but it just wasn’t her day. She landed on a taxi parked at the hotel entrance, which broke her fall enough to save her life.
The 33 year old is now in a hospital intensive care unit after being operated on for multiple injuries, including internal bleeding and broken hips and ribs.
Officials said she had a lung, a kidney and her spleen removed.
Reports in Argentina quoted witnesses as saying the woman ordered a coffee in a restaurant, near the top of the hotel, before taking off her shoes to climb over a safety barrier.
The taxi driver got out of his parked vehicle and ran for safety when he saw a policeman looking up at the woman, the country's state news agency Telam said.
The driver, identified only as 39-year-old Miguel, told reporters: "If I hadn't got out, I'd be dead.
"I felt this explosion and I saw this woman's body sunken into the roof of my cab.
"The first thing I did was call my family. And then I just started to cry - it is really hard to see something like that."
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