Glad she made it out alive… Via NY Post: The 400-pound Queens pedestrian who crashed through an Upper East Side sidewalk said yesterday that a thinner woman might have died from that fall. “Thank God, they said that my size was the only thing that saved me,” Ulanda Williams, 32, told The Post as she was discharged from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Williams, of Springfield Gardens, was waiting for a bus at about 9:10 p.m. Friday when she tried to hide from the rain under an awning. The ground suddenly disappeared beneath her — and she was swallowed whole by the cavernous space adjacent to the cellar of The Blue Room on Second Avenue. “It was horrible, absolutely horrible,” said Williams, who broke her arm in two places in the 6-foot fall. The social worker, who wore an arm brace as she left the hospital, had bruises and cuts all over her face and neck from the fall. She said there were no warning signs indicating that any possible sidewalk danger. “Nothing, nothing,” she said. “It happened so instantly that I didn’t even recognize anything. Cement was all over me, debris. They had a bed frame down there, broken pipes and wood pieces. It was a hollow place.” Neighborhood resident Bobby Robertson, 56, said the building could use some work. “When I’m standing here waiting for the bus, I take a look around once in a while and notice how decrepit the street and buildings look,” he said. “You can see cracks in the walls and in the concrete, too. The owners don’t do any upkeep.” Frank Lupo, 47, a maintenance worker who lives in the building next door to the sidewalk collapse, said the fall could easily have been fatal. “It doesn’t look it from street level, but that’s one hell of a drop,” he said. “I’m glad she’s alive.” SMH. They better be ready for some lawsuits!
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400 LB Woman Who Crashed Through A NYC Sidewalk Says Her Size Saved Her Life…”A Skinny Woman Would Have Died!”
