A New York City man who plunged 40 storeys from the rooftop of an apartment building has survived after crashing onto a parked car.
Witnesses and police say 22-year-old Thomas Magill jumped from the high-rise at West 63rd Street on Tuesday. He landed in the backseat area of a Dodge Charger after crashing through the windshield.
He suffered broken legs. Police say he’s in critical condition. The car’s owner, Guy McCormack, of Old Bridge, NJ, told the Daily News he’s convinced that rosary beads he kept inside the Dodge saved Magill’s life. McCormack was doing construction work across the street when his car broke Magill’s fall.
“He came down feet-first at, like, 100 mph,” the New York Daily News quoted a witness Andrew Petrocelli as saying. Petrocelli is a maintenance worker across the street.
“That’s a miracle if I’ve ever seen one. He should be a goner. It was like that movie Unbreakable. That was this guy: Unbreakable,” he added.
Police are investigating why Magill jumped. Magill, whose family lives on Staten Island, was once listed as a resident of the building, West End Towers at 75 West End Ave. Neighbours said he studied music at Fordham University.
Magill’s father, Thomas Sr, sent friends a text message, asking them to “pray for my son”. After his son’s surgery, the father said: “He’s stable. We can only hope he’ll be okay.”
Magill isn’t the only New Yorker to survive a high-rise fall. Window washer Alcides Moreno fell 47 stories from the roof of a skyscraper in December 2007, and doctors expected him to walk again.
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