New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- A 21-year-old University of Georgia student survived an eight-storey fall from her apartment in Athens, Georgia, after reportedly falling through an open window while dancing on a couch.

Kristin Elizabeth Sargent, a senior at the university, was at the Rambler Athens Apartments on West Broad Street on Saturday evening when the incident happened, according to the Athens-Clarke County Police Department. She fell from an eighth-floor window and landed on a pool deck in the building's courtyard below.

Police said the incident occurred at around 7.30 PM. Witnesses told officers that Sargent had been dancing on a couch or air mattress near an open window when she went through the window's screen.

When officers arrived,...