Ad Executive Crushed to Death in Elevator Accident in Manhattan

At New York Times, "Suzanne Hart Crushed in Midtown Elevator":

The woman, Suzanne Hart, a director of new business content and experience at Y&R, one of the world’s leading advertising agencies, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which happened around 10 a.m. at 285 Madison Avenue, a 28-story building at the corner of 40th Street.

A Fire Department official described the accident as follows:

Her foot or her leg are heading into the elevator while the door is open. Her one foot is in the car; but then, the doors close on her leg and the elevator shoots upward. And she is just kind of yanked up with it. Then, the elevator car becomes pinned between the first and second floor. It seems like her body is what stops the elevator’s movement.

The official said that it took about an hour just to remove the two other passengers, who were not hurt but were taken to New York University Langone Medical Center. “I don’t think any physical injuries,” he said. “It is just what they saw, traumas.”

Ms. Hart’s body remained jammed in the elevator for considerably longer, stuck in what is called the blind shaft between the first and second floors, the official said.

Also at Fox News New York, "Woman Crushed By Elevator In Midtown."

More at London's Daily Mail, "Madison Avenue advertising executive crushed to death after elevator starts moving with the doors still open."