RadX Moderator July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 From prev thread thanks to @2bdriver http://www.mycarforum.com/topic/2665681-4-elderly-women-fall-off-escalator-at-punggol-mall/?p=5551521 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOrMecRfL8 ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoverofCar 6th Gear July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 It looks like the platform wasn't secured properly after maintenance work...the escalator company should bear full responsibility of this incident....RIP.... a really painful way to pass away...the kid will have this etched in his mind for the whole life... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ktglfc Hypersonic July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 From prev thread thanks to @2bdriver http://www.mycarforum.com/topic/2665681-4-elderly-women-fall-off-escalator-at-punggol-mall/?p=5551521 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOrMecRfL8 Very horrible... haiz... A mother is gone.. just like that ... sad... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coltplussport Turbocharged July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 It looks like the platform wasn't secured properly after maintenance work...the escalator company should bear full responsibility of this incident....RIP.... a really painful way to pass away...the kid will have this etched in his mind for the whole life... Read that the escalator was under maintenance and the mother insist on going up the escalator. The father meanwhile did not take the escalator. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sp4wn Turbocharged July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 (edited) goddamn. what a way to go. really the stuff of nightmares >< Edited July 27, 2015 by Sp4wn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matoonia 6th Gear July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 How come the ladies were there looking like they anticipated something will happen? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lala81 Hypersonic July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 How come the ladies were there looking like they anticipated something will happen? They are there to stop people using the escalator i think. Just waiting for the woman/child to get off Some pple say the woman insisted on going up. Some say they were going to close the escalator after her. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buadongdong Twincharged July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 I thought all escalators will have an escalator pit for maintenance technicians to work on during the maintenance routines? I thought the mother only drop into the pit?? Correct me if i'm wrong? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacteria83 Turbocharged July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 BEIJING (AFP) - A woman was killed after she plunged through flooring over an escalator in a Chinese department store, reports said Monday, thrusting her toddler to safety as she fell to her death. Xiang Liujuan, 30, was holding her son in front of her as they went up the stairway on Saturday, the Wuhan Evening News said. Security camera footage of the incident posted online showed a panel in the floor giving way as Xiang stepped off the escalator. As she fell half-way through she pushed her son forward, and a nearby shop assistant dragged him to safety. But the escalator continued rolling, and several seconds later Xiang is seen disappearing downwards into the mechanism, despite one of the staff briefly grabbing her hand. It took firefighters more than four hours to cut open the machine and recover the woman, who showed "no signs of life", the newspaper report said. The footage shows employees standing at the top of the escalator as the mother and child approach. Maintenance had just been carried out on the escalator at the Anliang department store in Jingzhou in the central province of Hubei, and workers forgot to screw the access cover back into place, the newspaper cited an unnamed source as saying. The accident was one of the top topics on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo on Monday with more than 6.6 million views. Most comments expressed fury at the shop management. "Why didn't the staffers stop customers at the entrance to the machine or just turn it off?" wrote one. "The department store is definitely responsible." Others were moved by the woman's final actions. "I was appalled when I saw her sink and at the same time felt the greatness of maternal love - the mother wasted no time pushing the child out when it happened," said one. China is prone to safety accidents as regulations and standards are often flouted and enforcement is lax, sometimes due to corruption. In 2012, a nine-year-old boy was killed after he got stuck in an escalator at a Beijing department store as horrified shoppers looked on. In July 2011, a 13-year-old boy was killed and more than 20 others injured when an escalator in a Beijing underground station suddenly reversed direction during the rush hour. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
13177 Supersonic July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 The article says China is prone to safety accidents as regulations and standards are often flouted and enforcement is lax, sometimes due to corruption. Always heard lift in China killed people, now escalator also! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enye Hypersonic July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 RIP! a few of questions needed to be answered why was she holding on to the son all the way up the escalator? also why were there people standing by at the top and bottom of the escalator? were they expecting something to happen? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockngbrd Supersonic July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 China Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lala81 Hypersonic July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 Most escalators have emergency stop button right? Too bad the women had no presence of mind to press it. Final destination style of death. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BanCoe Hypersonic July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 RIP! a few of questions needed to be answered why was she holding on to the son all the way up the escalator? also why were there people standing by at the top and bottom of the escalator? were they expecting something to happen? Parent holding on to a kid on an escalator is a must.... I did that to my kids always incase they miss the footing and I sort of always used to lift him up to that his shoes or laces or anything gets stuck but what you mentioned is correct- why were they just standing there see the video like cannot imagine how it can happen like split second it just opened , just like hangman's door opens from below Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolicense Turbocharged July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 basket.. gibe me nitemare taking escalator now.. RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
13177 Supersonic July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 basket.. gibe me nitemare taking escalator now.. RIP Maybe you don't take escalator in China?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolicense Turbocharged July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 Maybe you don't take escalator in China?! lift can crush, escalator can fall.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
13177 Supersonic July 27, 2015 Share July 27, 2015 lift can crush, escalator can fall.. Only can take stairs when you are in China. Lol. ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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