New Zealand teen survives 16-floor fall through parking garage roof onto concrete floor
By APSunday, July 25, 2010
NZ teen survives 16-story fall onto concrete floor
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A 15-year-old New Zealand boy has survived a 16-story plunge from the balcony of his family’s apartment onto a concrete floor.
New Zealand media reported Monday that the boy was playing on a balcony before he fell, dropping through the roof of a parking garage onto the concrete.
He was in stable condition at Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital with a broken wrist, a broken rib, gashed leg and internal injuries, the New Zealand Herald reported.
The newspaper said the garage roof — made of sheet iron and filled with insulation — may have broken his fall.
“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.
