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
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
Freaky!
