Elderly Woman Insured in Escalator Mishap in Boston

An 84-year-old woman was injured on October 15 when she fell on an escalator at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Tufts Medical Center station in Boston, CBS News is among outlets to report. The woman was traveling via commuter rail and the MBTA Orange Line from her home in Rockport, Massachusetts, to the medical center to visit her husband. The elevator serving the Tufts Medical Center MBTA station was out of service, so the woman had to use the escalator. She said after going “about three steps, the escalator knocked my walker into me and knocked me over.” She checked herself into the hospital’s emergency department and was diagnosed with a spinal fracture. “This experience for any passenger is unacceptable,” MBTA said in a statement, apologizing to the injured woman and observing it is “always striving to make the T more accessible for our riders.”