Posted on 12/17/2011 8:36:56 AM PST by Libloather
Frightened New Yorkers shun elevators after crush horror
By HELEN FREUND, BILL SANDERSON and BOB FREDERICKS
Last Updated: 12:17 PM, December 16, 2011
The routine trip up and down elevators across the city was a traumatic affair for many New Yorkers yesterday following the terrifying death of an advertising executive who was crushed to death as she headed to work.
“I’ve been taking the stairs today. I usually take the stairs at home, but not here,” said Lisa Miller, 41, who climbed 10 floors to her office.
She works across the street from 285 Madison Ave., where Young & Rubicam exec Suzanne Hart, 41, was killed moments after getting one foot in the elevator.
Hart was killed when the elevator she was boarding in the building lobby shot upward like a bullet before the doors closed. She ended up pinned between the elevator cab and the wall.
“She was 41, I’m 41, and it was so close to here,” said Miller. “It just made me think twice.”
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I was merely stating that of the 12,000 stair fall deaths each year, 1 or 2 of them might involve alcohol.
That's all I'm sayin'
The guy who serviced the elevator before this happened might have been an affirmative action hire, was drunk or high when working on it, or he intentionally sabotaged the safeties.
There are always going to be faults and flaws that result in mechanical failures and accidents. Look at the cranes in NYC that have failed. There will always be accidents but I still put incompetence, unethical and corrupt behavior on the part of someone, as the biggest contributing factor. Was the elevator serviced by an incompetent serviceman? Was it only paper inspected? Were corners cut on quality on the install? If the investigation finds a connected company or individual involved, it will be covered up. Believe it. I'm cynical of everything like this.
I am trying to visualize this and it ain’t pretty. Poor thing. Very sad. The more instant her death the better for her. I wonder if others were in the elevator and how it shooting up like a bullet impacted them. The accident of the women for anyone close by has to be scarring for life though.
Advertising executive dies in NY elevator accident
Two other people who got on just before looked on in horror as Suzanne Hart was killed. They were rescued from the elevator, which jammed between the first and second floors, and were taken to a hospital to be evaluated for psychological trauma.
oh. very sad. glad they have their life though. thank you.
I’ll never use a elevator or escalator again. Yesterday I climbed to the 47th floor.
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