Frightened New Yorkers shun elevators after crush horror

NY Post ^ | 12/16/11 | HELEN FREUND, BILL SANDERSON and BOB FREDERICKS

[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.”

[yldstrk]

Yeah, In didn’t know there were 40 elevator deaths a year. That is inexcusable.

[TaxPayer2000]

I wonder how many stair deaths per year.............

[Silentgypsy]

Stairs are better for you, anyway.

[TexasFreeper2009]

good point!

I would bet far more people die on stairs.

[snowstorm12]

This sounds like a scene out of the Final Destination movies. YIKES!

[4yearlurker]

12,000 stair deaths per year on average. Rod Price,a great guitar player for Foghat died in his home from falling down his stairs.

[NakedRampage]

Maybe, but not by being ground up into an unrecognizable paste.

[ClearCase_guy]

There is an overlap between "stair deaths" and "alcohol-related deaths".

Just sayin'

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Libloather.

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.

[4yearlurker]

Yep.The guy had to be loaded when he took the fall. You were there? Just sayin’

[ken5050]

Stand on a packed NYC subway platform during rush hour. I’m always amazed that several people aren’t pushed in front of trains every day..

[JRandomFreeper]

Dead is dead, don't matter much how you buy the farm, unless it's slow and lingering.

/johnny

[Publius6961]

Bookmark

[bigbob]

This should never happen. We have the technology.

[MCF]

Quite true. The two men that I knew that died from a stair fall had been drinking.

[Auntie Mame]

Elevators are the safest form of mass transportation we have. There are a LOT of backup safety systems. Someone really messed up for this accident to have happened. Horrible.

[montag813]

Let’s use Sarah Brady’s logic: BAN ALL ELEVATORS!

[MCF]

Here is an interesting bit of trivia from when a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building on 7/28/1945:
“and elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver was injured. After rescuers decided to transport her on an elevator which they did not know had weakened cables, it plunged 75 stories. She survived the plunge, which still stands as the Guinness World Record for the longest survived elevator fall recorded”