Teen falls 16 stories onto concrete – minor injuries
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A 15-year-old New Zealand
boy has survived with minor
injuries after falling 16-stories
from the balcony of his family’s
apartment onto a concrete floor,
Belinda Goldsmith reports
to REUTERS July 26th, 2010.
The New Zealand Herald said
the teen-ager fell about 50
meters off the balcony,
dropping through a carpark roof
that may have broken his fall
before he hit the concrete.
Another tenant raised the alarm
after seeing the boy fall past
his window.
The newspaper said medical
experts were amazed that the boy
survived as few people managed
to live if they plunged from
more than five storeys.
The teen-ager was described as
in a stable condition in an Auckland
hospital with a broken wrist,
broken rib, gashed leg
and internal injuries,
the New Zealand Herald reported.
“God must have been with him.
He’s got an angel
looking after him,
that’s for sure,”
housekeeper Kaa Wehi,
who was working in the
building at the time,
told the newspaper.
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