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Georgia student, 21, survives eight-storey fall onto pool deck after metal bench breaks her plunge

From the Newshound archive · first published 29 September 2026 · last updated 1 October 2026.

The pool deck at The Rambler apartment complex in Athens, Georgia. A metal chair cushion there broke Kristin Sargent's fall after she plunged up to 60 feet through a window screen — its armrest snapping clean off on…
The pool deck at The Rambler apartment complex in Athens, Georgia. A metal chair cushion there broke Kristin Sargent's fall after she plunged up to 60 feet through a window screen — its armrest snapping clean off on…

Sargent was dancing near an eighth-floor window at her Athens apartment building when she fell out, landing on the pool deck below. A panicked friend told a 911 dispatcher: "We were dancing, and she just fell out of the window — she's not moving." Another resident reported seeing the fall from his fifth-floor window. Sargent was rushed to intensive care but survived.

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