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smartarse · 10-05-2006

May 10, 2006 -- A beautiful high-fashion model apparently took a wrong turn inside her trailer's bathroom as the RV rumbled along a Brooklyn highway yesterday - and opened up a door that dumped her onto the highway.
Leggy Russian head-turner Tatyana Simanava, 21, suffered a possible broken shoulder and wrist, as well as cuts and bruises, when she took the terrifying tumble from the motor home. It was traveling 50 mph along the busy Gowanus Expressway near 76th Street around 11:50 a.m., police said.
The frantic driver of the vehicle - a 1982, black, souped-up coach sporting dark tinted windows - spotted the model in his side-view mirror as she fell out and immediately pulled over, cops said.
Simanava landed in the left lane, which the RV had been traveling in - and miraculously wasn't hit by another vehicle.
She was rushed to Lutheran Hospital, where she was expected to at least spend the night for treatment, sources said.
The Next agency model - whose sultry blond, blue-eyed looks have been routinely featured in everything from demure bridal to saucy lingerie ads - was apparently on the job for a shoot when the freak nightmare accident occurred. She told highway cops that she had gone inside the bathroom in the RV, and when she tried to exit minutes later, she apparently picked the wrong one of two doors that led from it, a police source said.

Instead of opening the one she had entered from, she turned the knob on the one that led to the road.
Reps with her modeling agency said no one was available for comment.
Simanava is listed on the Web as being a 5-foot-10, size-8 model with measurements of 32-24-35 who has been featured in ads for everyone from Alysi to Velesca to David's Bridal.
Her credits also include one bit-part acting stint - as a model - in the comic French flick "Absolument fabuleux" ("Absolutely Fabulous"), about the extravagant life of two over-the-top models in Paris.
Police said the RV belongs to DBL Leasing of Scottsdale, Ariz. The firm was unreachable last night.
The coach bore the name On Time Elite, a local company that, according to its Web site, rents out vehicles for produc tions and other events. Several employees refused to talk about the incident.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the injured party," one woman said before hanging up.
Worried friends and handlers of the statuesque stunner kept vigil at the hospital through the day.
A New York photographer who has worked with Simanava called her "very sweet, very professional, very courteous."
"I've worked with some models who get a little nuts and get caught up in the city's nightlife, and I didn't see that with her at all," said fashion shutterbug Eric Striffler.
"She's fantastic, a great model. Very attractive and sexy in front of the camera.
"I'm very sorry to hear this news. It puts her career on hold for a while, unfortunately." Additional reporting by Kate Sheehy and Murray Weiss

*NY Post

Heroin_Chic · 10-05-2006

Freaky!

...very hard to believe that a person with a clear mind "falls out" of a moving vehicle! If you`re unsure about a door you`re extra careful - especially when you`re driving!

VainJane · 10-05-2006

That's a mistake that someone could easily make--- they should at least put a big sign on the door. That's the kind of scary freak accident that I would probably end up going through

Thank God plane bathrooms only have one door!

Siesta · 10-05-2006

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Originally Posted by VainJane

Thank God plane bathrooms only have one door!

**Faith Akiyama** · 10-05-2006

Oh dear! I hope she'll be ok...

cosmogrl5 · 10-05-2006

The poor dear! This sounds like something out of a crazy movie.

**julesrules815** · 10-05-2006

these people talk about her like she is dead! geez! i know this sounds mean, but did she not look down or anywhere before she took a step onto the road?

brian · 10-05-2006

who is she? i've never heard of her...

fezbatik · 10-05-2006

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Originally Posted by VainJane

That's a mistake that someone could easily make--- they should at least put a big sign on the door. That's the kind of scary freak accident that I would probably end up going through

Thank God plane bathrooms only have one door!

you think someone could easily make this mistake?????? Ummm....

yourbestfriend · 10-05-2006

Why does the bathroom have a door leading to the outside of a RV?

This is Tatyana

modelwire

**Faith Akiyama** · 10-05-2006

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Originally Posted by yourbestfriend

Why does the bathroom have a door leading to the outside of a RV?

My question exactly!

Brazilian Girl · 10-05-2006

^same here!

that sounds really scary, I mean, imagine falling out of a speeding RV!

smartarse · 11-05-2006

well anyone who lives in NYC and have driven through Gowanus Expressway that's a very busy, Daytona-like or for the Europeans: Monaco Raceway-like highway. Tatyana was extremely lucky , almost a miracle she wasn't hit by speeding cars or ran over! Let alone it happened during a time that's a very slow traffic flow.

...anyone (like the stylists here) who have been on an RV for shoots or movies those don't have bathroom doors facing the exit door. that's why i was

"huh? How????". All i can think of since that highway IS fast she must've jerked in the direction of the exit door and god knows NYC highways are HORRID, and was disoriented . Then again it was just one of those freak accidents? hmmm?

*correction: highway not bridge as per title of thread.

igotgoodjeans · 11-05-2006

yikes! miracle she didn't get run over by another car!

Siesta · 11-05-2006

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Originally Posted by yourbestfriend

Why does the bathroom have a door leading to the outside of a RV?

Easy access for cleaning people?