Moment woman, 80, falls on to car from sixth floor apartment but walks away unscathed

An 80-year-old woman from Yekaterinburg, Russia, can call herself lucky to be alive after falling from the window of her sixth-floor apartment and landing on top of a parked car.

The accident occurred last Thursday, as the unnamed octogenarian was cleaning the windows of her apartment. A single moment of carelessness was enough to send her tumbling down from the sixth floor onto a neighbor’s car. The shocking fall was captured by CCTV cameras and has been making the rounds on Russian social media ever since. Amazingly, mere moments after landing on the roof of the parked car, the 80-year-old woman manages to climb down and walk away, seemingly unscathed.

(This is the alarming moment a pensioner falls onto a car from a sixth-floor apartment before walking away unharmed)

(CCTV footage captures the 80-year-old woman hurtling into view, slamming into the vehicle's roof as it crumples upon impact. Here she can be seen lying on the car's roof just moments after the fall)

(The octogenarian, from Yekaterinburg, Russia, had reportedly been cleaning her windows before the terrifying plunge)

(Images of the car she landed on show the roof caved in and the windscreen shattered by the strong impact)

(It is thought that the woman's life was saved by the parked vehicle, which cushioned her fall. Pictured: The car that the pensioner landed on)

Miraculously, she survived the crash-landing and could be seen rolling off the car, brushing herself off, and returning to business as usual.

It is thought that the woman's life was saved by the parked vehicle, which cushioned her fall.

She was reportedly admitted to a local hospital as a precaution but is not believed to have been injured.

Russian media outlet E1.RU reported that the woman fell from her sixth-floor apartment due to her own negligence, and police confirmed that there was no sign of foul play. How she managed to not only survive the fall but to do so without any major injuries, especially at her age, remains a mystery. Photos of the car she landed on show a sunken roof, evidence of the strong impact.

“I saw her lying in my car through the window. They said she was a neighbor from the sixth floor,” the car’s owner told Russian reporters.

“During the investigation, it was preliminarily established that the elderly woman fell from the window due to carelessness,” a police spokesperson said. “The victim was hospitalized in a medical center and is receiving necessary assistance. The police are still investigating the case.”

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