Woman suffers ‘deep gash’ after drone hits her on SLC street
May 30, 2018, 7:44 AM | Updated: 7:57 am
SALT LAKE CITY – A wayward drone struck a woman in her face as she walked in downtown Salt Lake.
Erin Rubens was trying to catch a train near the Salt Palace on Friday afternoon.
“I felt my face, and looked down, and saw that it was a drone,” Rubens said. “I was bleeding all over.”
She rushed into a nearby store to clean up her bloody nose wound, which a doctor later glued shut.
“She said it was really lucky [the drone] landed where it did,” Rubens said. “It was close enough to my eye that, if it would have hit my eye, I would have lost it.”
When Rubens came out of the store, the drone was gone.
“Who was flying a drone, and doesn’t know how to fly, or doesn’t have it fully charged?” Rubens asked.
“I need my eyes, so I don’t want you flying over my head. Period.”
Rubens filed a report with police, but they cannot track the culprit without the drone, evidence or surveillance video.
They can only hope the operator comes forward.
