BY NADIA D'ANDREA
An 85-year-old Stockton woman avoided death yesterday afternoon after a window fell from a two storey building.
June Daniels was waiting for a bus outside a construction site on the corner of Newcastle's Perkins and King Streets when the window smashed onto the ground less than a metre from where she stood.
University of Newcastle lecturer, Paul Scott, was walking across the street when he heard the window land and says it could have been avoided if the worksite was fenced off.
He was one of the first to attend to Mrs Daniels and made sure to photograph the smashed glass, later reporting the incident to SafeWork NSW.
“Mrs Daniels was extremely lucky she wasn’t very seriously injured or perhaps even killed," Paul Scott told 2NURFM News.
"She said to me, look, I’m 85, I don’t expect to be around forever but I didn’t think a window falling from the sky would be the thing that took me out!”
Mrs Daniels was left shaken by the incident but fortunately escaped unharmed.
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| Picture: Paul Scott Via Newcastle Herald. |
