University of Georgia student dancing on couch near window falls 8 stories and survives

A University of Georgia student survived a plunge from her eighth-floor apartment, authorities said Monday, after she had been “dancing on a couch near a window” and fell out.

The student fell from the Rambler Athens Apartments at 558 W. Broad St. in Athens about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, according to police records.

The “student was dancing on a couch near a window that was open” and “fell from the 8^th floor window and landed on the pool deck below,” the Athens-Clarke County Police Department said in a statement.

Remarkably, Kristen Elizabeth Sargent, 21, of Virginia, appeared to have survived the harrowing plunge.

“At this time, she is conscious and alert but seriously injured,” police said.

A cushioned metal bench might have broken the 5-foot-7, 115-pound woman’s fall.

“I arrived and spoke with bystanders who advised that the female victim had been dancing on a couch or air mattress which was near an open window and had apparently fallen through the screen and onto the ground below,” Police Sgt. Erik Ellison wrote in a report.

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“When I arrived, the victim was on the ground near the pool, which at this complex is in a courtyard on the second floor of the building. It appeared from the scene that the victim had struck a metal bench as she fell, as the cushion on the bench had some blood on it and the armrest of the bench had broken off,” Ellison wrote.

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The initial probe “thus far suggests that this was an accident” and that the victim “will survive,” Ellison added.

A representative for the university could not immediately be reached for comment.

Rambler Athens is a student housing community that sells itself as an upscale building that includes a “state-of-the-art” gym, a “resort-style pool,” a coffee bar and pet care services.