Current Events > Mother of three cut in half in freak accident

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40999568

A Spanish woman has died after being crushed in a freak accident involving a hospital lift, local media report.

Rocío Cortés Núñez, 25, had just given birth by Caesarian section in Seville's Our Lady of Valme hospital when the incident occurred on Sunday.

Her hospital trolley was being wheeled out of the lift when it began to rise with its doors open, leaving part of her body hanging outside.

Firefighters were called to rescue her but she could not be saved.

Some reports say her head was severed.
Family is 'devastated'

Ms Núñez had two other children, aged four and five, and her newborn daughter - who was with her at the time - was not harmed.

Her brother-in-law David Gaspar said that the family wanted to know why safety systems appeared to have failed. He added the accident was hard to believe.

Ms Núñez's husband, José Gaspar, said he was devastated by what had happened.

"This can't be so. Today it was Rocío but tomorrow it could be someone else," he told ABC Sevilla.

Regional health minister Marina Alvarez has opened an investigation but told reporters that the lift had passed safety tests earlier this month.

She called it a "rapid, unusual and tragic" accident.

A porter was reportedly moving Ms Núñez to a maternity ward when the doors on the lift they were in opened and closed a few times.

But as he attempted to wheel her out of the lift to try another one, it began to rise, trapping her.

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That's some Final Destination shit right there....

Bloody hell, I read the article and thought the poor woman had fallen foul of a paternoster. There's a lot to be investigated for a failing lift. It's one thing being trapped between floors, it's another for a lift to start moving whilst people are transiting.
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Fuck that's a terrible way to go.
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Oh god
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That's pretty fucking horrifying. Like, I'm sure what I'm imaging in my head can't even come close to the reality of it.
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Tragic

How did it move that fast that they couldn't get her across in time?

RIP and prayers for the children

i dont get it. how did she exactly die?
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FightingGames posted...

i dont get it. how did she exactly die?

She was killed by death.

Zikten posted...

That's some Final Destination shit right there....

There's certainly a lot of coincidences here, including the fact that she just gave birth before it happened.
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FightingGames posted...

i dont get it. how did she exactly die?

Imagine laying down in the doorway of an elevator and it goes down without closing the doors. It would squeeze you and eventually sheer you in half like a pair of very dull scissors.
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I'm not taking elevators anymore.
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Final Destination
The Omen

Both come to mind.

ConfessPlease posted...

I'm not taking elevators anymore.

Oh yes you damn well will!
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MatTa00 posted...

FightingGames posted...

i dont get it. how did she exactly die?

Imagine laying down in the doorway of an elevator and it goes down without closing the doors. It would squeeze you and eventually sheer you in half like a pair of very dull scissors.

What i dont get is why they coukdnt move her in time...
Seems like an unnecessary tragic accident.

I fucking hate elevators. I'm always super careful around them. There was this one time an elevator door closed on me and it gave me a freakin bruise on my shoulder. Luckily it reopened shortly
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UnhndredDescole posted...

FantomPayne posted...

Final Destination
The Omen

Both come to mind.

Those are very similar movies.

That newest death note is similar too