SAN FRANCISCO — A worker fell screaming 11 stories from the roof of a bank building Friday morning onto a moving car, crushing its roof and sending shattered glass flying into the street, police and witnesses said.
The man suffered critical injuries, but he was conscious, and the driver was not injured, police said.
Witnesses described seeing a blue streak and the man’s shadow as he fell and then hearing shattering glass as he hit the Toyota Camry and then rolled onto the ground.
The man, identified by police only as window washer, was moving equipment on the roof of a bank building in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district and was not on a window-washing platform when he fell, San Francisco police Sergeant Danielle Newman said.
Bystanders, including a nurse, who aided the man said he was bleeding but lucid.