Sorry if this is a re-post.  I tried the search function, but didn't find anything:

'It is lucky that I am alive,' model declares

BY NICOLE BODE and ADAM NICHOLS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS 

Her million-dollar face covered in gauze, model Tatyana Simanava charged yesterday there was no sign on the bus exit door she mistook for a bathroom, sending her tumbling onto a Brooklyn highway.

"I am not angry, but I would like that there are some changes made, that nothing like this can happen again," the Belarus-born beauty said from her Mount Sinai Medical Center bed.

"I am sure that ... the exit doors have to be locked and they have to be marked. There were no signs."

Simanava, 21, who lives in Chelsea, fell onto the Gowanus Expressway Tuesday while traveling to a bridal-modeling gig on a luxury bus leased from Hoboken-based company On Time Elite.

Linda Safir, On Time Elite's founder, said, "I think that [the doors] are marked. "I'm very confused as to how she could have done this."

Dressed in a hospital gown and surrounded by vases full of flowers, Simanava recounted a quite different story.

"I asked where the bathroom was and I was told it's down the stairs, there's a door," she said.

"I opened the first door I saw, and I don't remember anything after that. My friends told me the bus driver saw me fall.

"Everybody said it is lucky that I am alive."

Simanava, who was discovered by talent spotters in Belarus five years ago, suffered heavy bruising to her right arm - but, miraculously, no broken bones.

Her face was covered in gauze yesterday, with only her nose, lips and heavily swollen right eye visible.

She said her jaw was so beaten she has been unable to chew any food.

But she added her battered appearance was only temporary.

"I will get better, and I'm told there will be no scars," she said.

"[Doctors] said I may go home this weekend. I feel very hopeful, grateful that people care about me, and very lucky. I just want to get well soon and come back to work."

She conceded her return to the fashion world could be a few months away.

"For a great picture, I have to look perfect," she said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/ … 2215c.html

lol

You have to admit that its pretty funny. You would think that if someone is looking for the bathroom and they open a door to find a gust of wind and pavement, they would turn around lol.

LOLOL! What a ditz-

Ouch.

Wonders if she went on the way out or after she hit the ground.

I'd have to say thats very sad...but funny at the same time! Hope she's ok! ~

~*~LALA~*~
www.lalabrasil.com

Says it all...!

good thing she's pretty.

What... an... idiot...

let's do the blame game everybody

I heard on the radio that her face is covered in roadrash and might scar so who knows when we will see her again.

I find it painfully obvious that if this happened to a popular MM model, the sorrow and grief would be overflowing.... for instance if this unfortunate accident happened to Nemi, Elisaveta, Kevlar Gel, etc....
But since its someone nobody knows, she's a stupid moron.
Shame on you.

Hmmm, yeah, hate to say it but we all got a kick out of this.  I mean I'm glad she's ok...but one wonders what she was doing in the bathroom that was so disorienting (sniff, sniff).  Yes, I'm a horrible human being, chock full of schadenfreude...

Wow!  I feel really bad for her.  I can't even imagine how painful that was for her and prob still is

Many hugs,
Caroline Victoria

I guess the moral of the story is.... just be glad this "coke-sniffing moron" wasn't a friend or relative of you thoughtful compassionate people....

aaww poor thing...

No wonder Jerry Springer is so rich.

"Here`s yer sign!"

Having been a hardcore scooter tramp for 12 years before my stroke-my daily ride and not a weekend warrior and I didn't ride no damn dresser neither-I feel for her having had roadrash several times.

It is odd in my mind to open a door and step thru without looking-however I have a strong streak of self-awareness and sense of paranoidism but perhaps it was night and with all the road noise on the bus it might not have registered.

She obviously makes more money than I do so calling her 'stupid' won't happen from me.

Also, let's see how long it takes for the lawyers to get involved if they aren't already.

Well, just think about it.  You fly over here (U.S.A.) then your agent shuffles you around from shoot to shoot, you're tired, in a foreign country and you have to pee.  I'm glad she will be ok, poor girl!  I hope non of the cuts leave scars or marks on her.

That really sucks for her!  Think about it....not only is she injured and in physical pain, but she must be pretty embarrassed as well.  You all understand what it feels like to trip and fall our your face, only to have everyone else in the room turn around and laugh at you.  Poor thing, I hope she ends up being okay.