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Post by superteacher on Oct 24, 2018 19:51:21 GMT
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Post by snoggle on Oct 24, 2018 20:45:50 GMT
They were very fortunate that it was not much much worse. Hopefully it will bring to home to people that escalators are potentially very dangerous things indeed and not to be trifled with (not suggesting this happened here as the actual cause is unclear). I have a slight dread of being involved in an escalator accident as the potential for serious injury is so high. |
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Post by superteacher on Oct 24, 2018 21:07:11 GMT
They were very fortunate that it was not much much worse. Hopefully it will bring to home to people that escalators are potentially very dangerous things indeed and not to be trifled with (not suggesting this happened here as the actual cause is unclear). I have a slight dread of being involved in an escalator accident as the potential for serious injury is so high. Although the likelihood of an accident is extremely low. |
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Post by rincew1nd on Oct 24, 2018 21:11:31 GMT
Aren't escalators one of the safest modes of transport when you look at accident/passengers carried?
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Post by trt on Oct 25, 2018 13:43:13 GMT
I was involved in a similar occurrence at Euston in 2006. The steps went runaway on the down side National Rail in the morning peak. I was about three from the bottom when it just started accelerating down. I stepped off and quickly moved as far away as I could given the crowds. The rumbling was very loud, and I was expecting a pile of bodies to just crash into each other in a big pile at the bottom, but luckily people managed to get out of the way, and people stopped getting on at the top. God only knows what would have happened had there been, say, a mobility impaired person or a child unable to clear the bottom at the accelerated pace needed to prevent a pile-up. I still don't know exactly what went wrong with them - broken clutch shaft or a snapped chain or something like that. It was out of action for months, though.
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