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Teen Girl Falls In Open Manhole While Texting
Alexa Longueira, a high school sophomore, was walking along Victory Boulevard near Travis Avenue on Staten Island Wednesday evening when she felt the earth move and was plunged into smelly darkness.
She said the manhole she fell in to was left open and unattended with no warning signs or orange cones. She said two workers with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection failed to secure the area as they prepared to flush the sewer.
“It was just really gross and it was shocking and scary,” she said. “Because of their careless mistake I got hurt.”
Longueira has deep cuts and bruises and said she now has nightmares about falling, but she also did admit she was texting at the time.
Source: WCBSTV
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Both are at fault. We are so distracted by modern technology like texting and listening to ipods we are totally unaware of the dangers surrounding us. I would imagine if there was a bright orange cone there she may have tripped over it and fallen head first into the smelly murky darkness. Maybe its a good thing there was no cone so she fell feet first?
by Patches (Jul 16, 2009 at 2 AM)This goes to show that accidents don’t just happen they are a chain of events that come together and happen in a particular order. A man hole left open, no safe barriers put in place a girl not paying attention to her surroundings. She was lucky she was not more seriously injured.
by Skyscraper (Jul 28, 2009 at 3 PM)