http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...arf-tangling-leads-to-woman-s-death-1.2516971
"A 48-year-old woman died this morning after her scarf got caught in the escalator at the Fabre Metro station in Montreal.
The entrance of the Metro at Jean-Talon Street East and Fabre Street is now closed until further notice while the coroner and police investigate.
The incident happened around 9:15 a.m. ET Thursday at an unsupervised, automatic entrance to the Metro station on the blue line.
"She got strangled… and the woman… passed away on scene,” said Const. Jean-Pierre Brabant of the Montreal police.
A witness told investigators that the woman's hair also caught in the escalator after she bent down in an attempt to dislodge her scarf"
"A 48-year-old woman died this morning after her scarf got caught in the escalator at the Fabre Metro station in Montreal.
The entrance of the Metro at Jean-Talon Street East and Fabre Street is now closed until further notice while the coroner and police investigate.
The incident happened around 9:15 a.m. ET Thursday at an unsupervised, automatic entrance to the Metro station on the blue line.
"She got strangled… and the woman… passed away on scene,” said Const. Jean-Pierre Brabant of the Montreal police.
A witness told investigators that the woman's hair also caught in the escalator after she bent down in an attempt to dislodge her scarf"