The 23 Most Ridiculous Deaths of 2012

12 Clothes Caught in Escalator Strangles Woman

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They’re true. Your fears your entire life have been true. This can happen to any of us and nobody is safe. Stop sleeping or feeling comfortable because there’s a woman who died in 2012 from getting her clothes stuck in an escalator.

Lindenhurst, New York. An 88 year-old woman named Irene Bernatzky died after falling on an escalator and getting her clothes caught in the teeth of it. Her clothes, then, were what asphyxiated her.