Mother, 40, was crushed to death by faulty automatic garage doors in front of horrified friend after clinging to the closing shutters in an ‘act of silliness’

By KATIE FRENCH FOR MAILONLINE

A mother was crushed to death by faulty automatic garage doors in front of horrified friends after clinging to the closing shutters in an ‘act of silliness’.

Heidi Chalkley, 40, was dragged into the mechanism after grabbing onto the metal shutters with both hands as they rose up.

Her arms got trapped and she was pulled into the rolling metal shutters and crushed to death, an inquest heard.

But tragically a report found she might have survived had the safety detectors on the garage doors been working properly.

The social worker, from Cambridgeshire, was with a friend who lived at the four-storey apartment block at the time of the tragedy.

The pair were making their way out of the car park at the bottom of the building when Mrs Chalkley pressed the button to open the garage and grabbed onto the moving shutter ‘in a moment of silliness’.

 

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Mother, 40, was crushed to death by faulty automatic garage doors in front of horrified friend after clinging to the closing shutters in an 'act of silliness'

By KATIE FRENCH FOR MAILONLINE

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A mother was crushed to death by faulty automatic garage doors in front of horrified friends after clinging to the closing shutters in an 'act of silliness'.

Heidi Chalkley, 40, was dragged into the mechanism after grabbing onto the metal shutters with both hands as they rose up.

Her arms got trapped and she was pulled into the rolling metal shutters and crushed to death, an inquest heard.

But tragically a report found she might have survived had the safety detectors on the garage doors been working properly.

The social worker, from Cambridgeshire, was with a friend who lived at the four-storey apartment block at the time of the tragedy.

The pair were making their way out of the car park at the bottom of the building when Mrs Chalkley pressed the button to open the garage and grabbed onto the moving shutter 'in a moment of silliness'.


Original Article Here: Mother, 40, was crushed to death by faulty automatic garage doors in front of horrified friend after clinging to the closing shutters in an 'act of silliness'

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