“How, at a busy train station, does nobody stop, nobody see him?” the man’s grieving mother asked
NEED TO KNOW
- A 40-year-old man died due to a freak escalator accident that was ignored by others on Feb. 27
- Steven McCluskey was traveling to a subway platform at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)’s Davis Station in Somerville, Mass., when he got stuck
- He was ignored by others who passed by, and the man later died in the hospital days later
A man died due to a freak escalator accident that was ignored by others.
Steven McCluskey was traveling to a subway platform at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)’s Davis Station in Somerville, Mass., when tragedy struck on Feb. 27, according to local outlets NBC 10 Boston and the Boston Globe.
Video captured of the incident shows McCluskey, 40, riding the escalator down at about 5 a.m. local time. As he approaches the bottom, the man stumbles and falls, and he can then be seen trapped at the end of the escalator for several minutes.
Multiple people appear to ignore McCluskey and instead take the stairs, as some stop briefly to check on him. But it wasn’t until 22 minutes later that an MBTA worker finally helped McCluskey by pressing the emergency stop button on the escalator, NBC 10 reported…