Woman dies in freak accident after ‘getting caught in automatic garage doors’
Emergency services attended the scene but it was too late to save her
A WOMAN in her 40s died after being trapped in a garage door.
It's thought she was crushed after getting caught in automatic rolling shutters at the entrance to a private parking garage.
She is understood to have been visiting a friend at Ruth Bagnall Court in Cambridge on Sunday when the horrific incident took place.
Emergency services including the police, ambulance services, paramedics and the air ambulance arrived on the scene, but there was nothing they could do to save the woman.
One woman who lives in Ruth Bagnall Court described the scene.
"I came outside because I saw a woman crying.
"I said, 'What's the matter?' and she said something had happened and she needed help.
"I went [with her] to look in the garage and saw her legs hanging.
"It was not a sight to want to remember.
"It was horrific and I'm doing my best to forget it."
A man agreed the gruesome image was one he'd rather not think about.
"She was hanging, that's all I saw.
"It is a horrible situation.
"I saw it and it wasn't nice."
Another woman living in the block described how the accident could have happened.
"We were outside and we heard a crash, we thought it was an explosion...
"There's a manual switch to open the gate on the inside and my boyfriend thinks that she must have put her hand through to push it and got in trouble.
"He doesn't see how it's possible though because he's tried to do it before and he's got long arms and he still didn't manage.
"Maybe there was someone coming out at the same time and the gate opened and trapped her."
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Cambridgeshire Police confirmed the incident was referred to the Health and Safety Executive to work out how it could have happened.
While a spokesperson for East of England Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 7.25pm on Sunday after reports of a woman unconscious and not breathing.
"Sadly there was nothing that could be done for the patient and she died at the scene."