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« Reed finalizes deal to get discounted heating oil | Today | Providence man found guilty of strangling wife » January 13, 2006N.H. man, 21, dies in fall from Providence Place escalatorPROVIDENCE - City police are investigating the death of a 21-year-old New Hampshire man who fell from an escalator last night at Providence Place mall. The victim, who was at the mall with two friends when he fell shortly after 9 p.m., is the third person to die in a fall from the upper heights of the mall since it opened in 1999. The police have asked that his name be withheld until they are sure family members have been notified. A friend of the victim told the police that the victim had been traveling down an escalator on the second level when he grabbed the outside railing of the adjacent escalator, going up. On reaching the third level, police said, he lost his grip and fell onto the second-floor escalator landing. The victim struck his head on the side of the escalator and was unconscious when the Providence Fire Department got there, according to a police report. He was taken to Rhode island Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. In May 2004, Jennifer Canelli, a 23-year-old Norfolk, Mass., woman died at the mall after slipping off an escalator bannister and falling 40 feet. The woman and her boyfriend had just celebrated his birthday at a mall restaurant and were heading home early on the morning of Sunday, May 2, when she fell. The couple and friends got onto the escalator from the upper level of the mall when Canelli leaped to sit on the bannister, the police said. She lost her balance and fell to the ground level of the mall, the police said. Two years before that, 62-year-old Augustine Silvia of Providence fell to his death from the top floor to the ground level. General Growth Properties, owners of the mall, released a written statement this morning, saying, "Our thoughts and prayers go out to this young man's family and friends. This is understandably a terrible loss for them. "It appears this young man died as a result of a tragic accident," the statement said. The mall has had several different owners since its opening. Posted by Jack Perry CommentsNot to sound insensitive, the loss of any human life is a tragedy, but what possesses these people to do something so blatantly stupid as to "sit" on an escalator rail - or "grab" the rail of another escalator? Am I missing something here? 2 of these terrible accidents could have been avoided with simple common sense! Posted by: Sandy at January 13, 2006 12:57 PM |
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