Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth

First floor flat window? How is that even possible?

Originally Posted by Rochard

I thought the same thing. Maybe the house was higher than usual, and perhaps she fell into a stair case leading to a basement?

Originally Posted by CDSmith

A lot of basements are only half in-ground, thus the "first floor" is often actually up several feet from ground level. Thus her fall, possibly backwards, might have been 8 or 10 feet as someone said.

But aside from that I learned long ago during my hospital-working days that it's not the height of the fall that matters, it's how you land. I once, while working on the Neuro-science ward, looked after a 20 yr old kid that had been doing some back flips and goofing around with friends, just standing on the lawn in his back yard, ground level, when he accidentally banged his head on a cement sidewalk. He said he felt fine after (as told to me by his mom), but the next morning his mom found him in bed, eyes open, laying there catatonic.

He never regained consciousness, died about 2 1/2 years later.


Then there are all the people who have fallen from great heights who have lived.