Georgia college student Kristin Sargent was singing and dancing to Miley Cyrus before accidentally falling from an open eighth-floor window, newly released bodycam footage shows.
The dramatic police video captures the aftermath of the 21-year-old’s 65-foot fall. Her stunned friends told officers they could hardly believe she had survived.
“I thought I was coming down here to see her dead,” one friend told an officer, according to bodycam footage from Athens-Clarke County police obtained by Local 12.
Later in the video, a roommate told police that Sargent had been drinking a beer and dancing on the couch while singing Miley Cyrus’ 2009 hit “The Climb.” She then fell backward through the screen of the open window at the five-bedroom apartment in Athens, Georgia.
Sargent suffered serious injuries, including a fractured femur and a puncture wound to her chest, but survived the fall. Police believe she may have been so intoxicated that she failed to brace herself, potentially reducing the impact when she landed on a cushioned metal bench on the ground below.
From her hospital bed, Sargent was able to speak with emergency medical technicians. “No one did anything bad to me,” she told them, according to the bodycam footage.
“I would die if I fell from that. She’s just a beast,” one friend said in the video. “We were all like, if anyone’s gonna come back from this, it’s Kristin.”
Sargent’s loved ones said she faces a long recovery after the September incident.