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State worker survives 20-foot plunge at Menands garage
The spectacular crash happened around 8:30 a.m. at the Riverview Center when the tan Toyota Camry drove through parking space 191, smashing past a vertical steel girder that supports a metal guardrail and to horizontal metal pipes also serving as a barrier.
The woman, 61, whose identity has not been released, crawled free from the wreckage and was taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital with neck and back injuries that authorities described as serious but not life threatening.
While the cause of the crash is still under investigation, the aftermath was abundantly clear: the sedan came to rest on its roof about 13 feet from the structure amid a sea of shattered glass in a wide alley on the south side of the garage.
The steel girder and what remained of the pipe barrier hung precariously while owners of cars parked on the deck below inspected minor damage to their cars from falling concrete and police investigators measured the dimensions of the fall.
No tire marks were evident on the space from which the car fell.
Police said they believe someone entering the garage heard the woman's screams and called 911.
Concerned co-workers from the state Office of the Medicaid Inspector General and throngs of other gawkers who work in the former Montgomery Ward building milled about on various levels of the garage, surveying the damage and snapping photos with their cellular phones.
Mike Arnold, a tow driver from Dawson's Body Shop, said he's had to flip plenty of overturned cars but never one quite like this.
"Definitely the first from a parking garage," he said.
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State worker survives 20-foot plunge at Menands garage -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY
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