Tourist Toddler Survives 3rd-Story Fall
Child airlifted to Oakland hospital
A little boy fell three stories from this hotel in Pleasanton.
A family visiting the Bay Area from Kuwait will have quite a story to tell about their trip to the Bay Area.
Somehow a three-year-old in the family fell out of a third-story hotel room window and survived with only minor scratches and scrapes.
This all happened at the Larkspur Landing Hotel in Pleasanton.
Around 2 p.m. Thursday afternoon the toddler was looking out the window, which has a screen in place. He apparently leaned into the screen with enough force to force it open.
His mother said the little boy was saying, "Look at our car! Look at our car! just before he fell. She said she turned to see him near the window and when she next looked back in that direction he was gone.
The boy and the screen tumbled out the window and dropped some 21-feet before bouncing off a hedge below and landing on the sidewalk.
Hotel workers immediately called 911 and the child was taken by helicopter to Children's Hospital in Oakland.
It looks like the screen and the hedge saved the day by helping absorb the impact of such a fall.
