Elderly woman dies as neck caught under Tokyo store’s escalator handrail

A woman in her 80s died on Wednesday 12th June after her neck became trapped under the handrail at the bottom of an escalator at a supermarket in Tokyo, police said, in the latest accident of its kind in recent months. Security camera footage from the store in Nishitokyo, western Tokyo, shows the woman fell as she attempted to lift the walker she was using as she approached the bottom of the escalator. Her neck then became trapped between the underside of the handrail and the floor. Episode notes: ‘Elderly woman dies as neck caught under Tokyo store’s escalator rail’: https://barrierfreejapan.com/2024/06/13/elderly-woman-dies-as-neck-caught-under-tokyo-stores-escalator-rail/