UGA student recovering after falling out 8th-floor window: 'We're lucky that she's alive'
Authorities say the 21-year-old was dancing on a couch and somehow fell out of a nearby window.
ATHENS, Ga. -- A University of Georgia student is on the mend after falling from the eighth floor of an apartment building over the weekend.
Kristin Sargent is still in the intensive care unit, but she is recovering, according to her father.
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Authorities say the 21-year-old was dancing on a couch and somehow fell out of a nearby window.
She then landed on the pool deck where a lounge chair may have broken her fall.
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Sargent has several broken bones.
Her father says she knows she is lucky to be alive.
"As you can imagine, pretty badly beaten up, and we're lucky that she's alive and we're blessed," Richard Sargent said. "She's a good fighter and so she's going to be OK."
