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Georgia college student miraculously survives 8-story plunge after metal bench breaks her fall

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A 21-year-old University of Georgia student survived an eight-story fall from an apartment window after apparently falling through a screen while dancing near an open window, according to a police report obtained by Fox News Digital.

Kristin Sargent fell from an eighth-floor window at the Rambler Athens apartment complex on West Broad Street around 7:37 p.m. Saturday.

Witnesses told police Sargent had been dancing on a couch or air mattress near the open window when she apparently fell through the screen. She landed near a pool in a courtyard on the building’s second floor, according to the report.

Police found evidence that Sargent struck a metal bench during the fall. An officer noted blood on the bench’s cushion and that one of its armrests had broken off.

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Lt. Katie Jenkins, a spokesperson for the Athens-Clarke County Police Department, told Fox News Digital that investigators believe the bench helped break Sargent’s fall. She said the incident is not being investigated as a criminal matter and that police understand Sargent is alert and conscious.

Emergency 911 audio obtained by FOX 5 Atlanta captured the frantic moments after Sargent fell.

“We’re on the eighth floor. My friend just fell out of the window,” a caller told dispatchers. “She’s on the ground. She fell out of the window. We were dancing, and she just fell out of the window.”

A dispatcher asked whether Sargent was moving.

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Kristen Sargent

“Is she moving? Is she moving? No, she’s not,” the caller responded.

The caller later told the dispatcher she could see Sargent below but could not determine whether her eyes were open.

“No, I don’t know. I’m looking down at her on the floor. She’s not moving,” the caller said.

Emergency responders transported Sargent to a hospital, where police investigators interviewed her and witnesses while forensic personnel investigated, according to the police report.

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Exterior of the Rambler Athens apartment complex in Athens, Georgia, where a UGA student survived an eighth-floor fall

A responding officer wrote that information gathered at the time suggested the fall was an accident. Jenkins told Fox News Digital police are not investigating the incident as a criminal matter.

The report identifies Sargent as a resident of the apartment where the fall occurred.

Police could not address the window or what safety measures may or may not have been in place.

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Rambler Athens previously said it was reviewing the incident.

Fox News Digital reached out to the apartment complex for additional information about the window and any safety measures in place at the time of the fall.

A representative for the University of Georgia did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for additional information.

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