Attempt to take up-escalator in a motorized wheelchair doesn’t work out too well
You know what they say about women drivers!
WOMAN IN WHEELCHAIR TAKES TUMBLE WHILE TRYING TO RIDE BOSTON T ESCALATOR
By Philip Caulfield
New York Daily News
July 18, 2012
Hey, lady, take the elevator!
Surveillance cameras in Boston caught a woman taking a nasty tumble after she tried to ride an escalator in her motorized wheelchair.
The fall happened at around 10 a.m. Friday, WHDH television reported.
The 56-year-old steered the chair to an up escalator at the Broadway T subway stop, but as it started to climb, she flipped backward and somersaulted down the stairs.
A good Samaritan tried to help her, but tripped over the 250-pound scooter.
An MBTA worker eventually stopped the escalator, and the woman unbuckled herself from the chair and walked down to the platform.
The station said the woman wasn't hurt.
MBTA officials credited the quick save to the station's new security cameras, installed as part of a Department of Homeland Security anti-terrorism project.
Similar cameras are being installed at 15 other T stations across the city, the station said.
Some riders have complained that the new cameras were an invasion of privacy.
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