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Window washer falls 11 stories, smashes into moving car in San Francisco

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A window washer fell 11 stories from a San Francisco building before bouncing off a moving car, police said.

The man suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to a local hospital, San Francisco police Officer Albie Esparza said. The fall happened at about 10 a.m. in the city’s Financial District.

The back of the car he landed on was smashed in, but Esparza said the driver was not injured in the incident.

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Fire officials initially reported that the man was a construction worker.

Maa-Becca Tucker was walking past the crash when she saw the worker lying on the ground. She said he wasn’t moving.

Tucker described the scene as “crazy.”

A woman standing next to her, she said, was praying for the man as firefighters took him away in an ambulance.

Some witnesses said the man had been clinging to a rope, which was seen dangling from the roof of the building.

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