DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. ‹ A college student on Spring Break was critically injured Saturday when she fell from a third-floor hotel balcony, crashed through a Plexiglas roof and landed in the hotel pool.
Danielle Augustus, 22, who attends Kent State University in Ohio, fell at about 4 p.m., just five minutes after checking in at the Desert Inn Resort Motel and Health Club at 900 N. Atlantic Ave.
She was taken to Halifax Medical Center, where she was listed in critical condition Saturday night, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
Police said they believe the fall was an accident. Attempts to contact a hotel representative about the incident were unsuccessful.
There have been several recent hotel-balcony falls in Florida.
A Dallas high-school student was in stable condition Saturday at Orlando Regional Medical Center with injuries sustained when he fell Thursday from a seventh-floor balcony at Disney's Wilderness Lodge.
Nathan McCollum, 17, was trying to visit classmates in the next room when he fell to the ground, collapsing his lung and possibly rupturing his spleen, officials said.
He was part of a dance troupe slated to perform this weekend at Universal Studios.
Charles Pierson, 31, of Fort Lauderdale, was in satisfactory condition Saturday at Halifax Medical Center with injuries he suffered when he fell from the fifth floor of the Holiday Inn at 3209 S. Atlantic Ave. in Daytona Beach Shores.
The March 13 fall fractured Pierson's knees, ankles and legs. Pierson had been arguing with his girlfriend before he fell, according to police.
A college student on Spring Break in Panama City Beach was hurt last week when he fell eight stories from the balcony of his beach-front hotel.
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