A teenager fell 23 floors from a high rise balcony after a macho stunt to 'impress a girl' - but survived after landing on the roof of a parked Renault taxi.

Lovestruck Alexander Shadrin, 16, fell 230 feet and amazingly was conscious when paramedics arrived.

The Russian teenager had climbed over the railing of the balcony at his home in Novosibirsk, Siberia to prove his bravado to a female friend, said eyewitnesses.

Alexander Shadrin is pictured on the buckled roof of the Romanian-made Renault Logan that 'cushioned his fall' and was conscious when paramedics arrived

But he could not hold on and hurtled towards what would have been certain death, had it not been for the Renault Logan parked below.

The teenager suffered 'serious injuries' but is stable in intensive care, said the Siberian Times.

Pictures from the scene show the roof of the car buckled and the rear window smashed.

Alexander fell from the 23rd floor of the 25 storey tower block (pictured)

This horrific picture, taken from the top of the tower block, shows Alexander's body still lying on the smashed car as paramedics arrive

But the Renault saved the boy by 'cushioning his fall', according to reports.

The teenager 'climbed over the balcony rails, clung on for sometime, but then couldn't hang on any longer, and fell onto a car parked below,' said the Novosibirsk branch of the Investigative Committee, Russian equivalent of the FBI.

The driver was not inside his vehicle at the time.

Investigators have taken statements from witnesses including relatives of the boy.

The identities of the girl he was seeking to impress and his relatives have not been made public.

This picture shows that if the parking space had been empty Alexander would have suffered certain death, rather than serious injury

It was also extremely fortuitous that nobody was inside the taxi as they would almost certainly have been killed