Her death followed a fall on an the escalator WHSmith at Quadrant Shopping Centre in Swansea
A woman died after falling on an escalator at a shopping centre. An inquest held into the death of Margaret Rose Harris at Swansea’s Guildhall on Tuesday heard how the 90-year-old died from external bleeding caused by traumatic lacerations to her right leg.
It followed a fall on the escalator at WHSmith at Quadrant Shopping Centre in Swansea city centre on Tuesday, January 21, of this year.
The inquest was told how retired administrator Ms Harris, of Miers Street in St Thomas, had been prescribed apixaban and aspirin, which would have contributed to the continuous bleeding after the lacerations had been sustained.
There were no faults in respect of the escalator or the surrounding environment.
The medical cause of death was given as external bleeding, traumatic laceration of soft tissues of the right leg, and coronary atheroma.
Senior coroner Aled Gruffydd returned a conclusion of accidental death.
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