Woman died after falling on escalator inside a shopping centre

A pensioner died after she fell on an escalator in a WHSmith store in Wales, an inquest has heard.

Margaret Rose Harris, 90, had been shopping in the Quadrant Shopping center in Swansea when the accident unfolded on January 21.

She suffered ‘traumatic lacerations’ to her right leg, which she tried to recover from.

During an inquest into her death, held at Swansea’s Guildhall yesterday, the coroner heard that the retired administrator was prescribed apixaban and aspirin, but the medications failed to stop the bleeding from her wounds.

The medications would have contributed to the continuous bleeding, it heard.

Ms Harris, from St Thomas, died shortly after the shopping center accident.

There were found to be no faults with the escalator or the surrounding environment.

Senior coroner Aled Gruffydd concluded her death was an accident.

In an online notice page, tributes have been paid to Margaret from her family and friends.

Helen Taylor, a former neighbor, wrote: ‘I had the pleasure of having this lovely lady as a neighbor and friend. She was kind, extremely intelligent and honourable which is a rare breed today.

‘I feel blessed that in her twilight years myself and my family got to know her and have the pleasure of her company. She was the first person to give my daughter an encyclopedia and encourage a love of reading in her so for this I am grateful. I will miss you Rose as you certainly touched my life.

‘Rest in peace lovely lady.’

A message from her family read: ‘Loving sister of the late Betty, Ron and John, much loved aunt of Tricia, Karl, Avril and the late Susan and families, dear great aunt and great great aunt.

‘Rose will be deeply missed by all her family and friends who knew and loved her.’

The accident happened just weeks after a man died when he fell from the upper level of a shopping center in Birmingham.

The man fell to his death from the upper floor of the Bullring & Grand Central in December shortly before closing time.

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