When I heard about this yesterday, I didn’t realize how huge the crane was, they were very lucky that this didn’t have more people killed or hurt.
Via Daily Mail:
A 45-year-old woman who was one of the three people injured when a construction crane crashed more than 200 feet to the ground in Manhattan Friday said that she ducked for cover seconds after hearing the metal falling.
Dawn Kojima said that she was grabbing coffee around 8.30am Friday before continuing to work when she walked directly into the path of the crane.
‘I heard something coming down and I looked up,’ she told The New York Daily News.Kojima, who is married, said that her instincts kicked in and she flattened herself against the nearest building and ducked for cover on Worth Street in TriBeCa.
‘I just leaned up against [the wall]. … I was just trying to cover myself, trying to protect myself,’ she told the Daily News.
‘I don’t know what hit me. It could have been parts of the crane that fell, some of the building, I don’t know. It’s hard to describe, it was really painful.’
