A 39-year-old British woman was reportedly found dead last June by her 19-year-old daughter after being crushed by her ottoman, one of the rams that normally allow the bed to be raised was faulty. Coroner on Monday.
“There are no words that can describe how we feel. I can't even fathom that this is real and that you will never walk through the door again […] “I hope you know how much I love you and that I would do anything for one more hug,” his daughter Elizabeth said in a Facebook post, according to The Guardian.
On June 7, the young woman had just walked up the stairs at her home in Seaham, in northern England, when she found her mother, Helen Davie, unconscious, with her head stuck under her ottoman, Croke Coroners Court heard during the hearing. Death investigation.
“Her legs were bent as if she was trying to get up. She dropped everything I was holding and tried to lift the top of the bed off his head,” his daughter reportedly recounted in a written statement read to the court and published by the Northern Echo.
With difficulty and misery, the young woman was able to remove her mother's head from the bed, whose gas piston mechanism, which usually allows furniture to be lifted without difficulty, seemed to no longer work.
“It was very heavy for me when I lifted it and tried to take it off. […] His face was blue with a clear mark on his neck. I managed to edit it. Didn't make any noise. She said, according to British media: “I started CPR and noticed that she was not breathing.”
Unfortunately, when first responders arrived at the scene, the mother of two was confirmed dead at the scene. She probably died of positional asphyxia, according to Durham and Darlington's chief coroner, Jeremy Chipperfield.
The investigation would have revealed that one of the two gas pistons was actually defective, such that the bed base “unexpectedly” fell on the 30-year-old while she was leaning over the storage space, he noted in his report. .
The latter was also going to write to the Secretary of Commerce and the Office of Product Safety and Standards to warn them of the need to take preventive measures to prevent similar deaths in the future.
“We are carefully studying the coroner’s report to understand the circumstances of this case, and if there is anything we can do to prevent tragedies like this from occurring in the future, we will respond fully before the deadline,” Papp, the ministry’s official spokesman, responded. Business and Trade to The Guardian.
