Inquest hears Helen Davey died of suffocation when the gas piston bed platform fell on her, trapping her neck
A coroner has warned that gas piston ottomans could present a risk to life, after a woman died when her bed collapsed on her, trapping her between the mattress and the base.
Davey, a beautician who ran her business from her Seaham home, was found by her 19-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, neighbours told the MailOnline. She is also survived by an 11-year-old son, George. “I noticed that her face was blue with a clear indent on her neck from the frame. I managed to pull her clear. I feared that she was dead as she made no sound. I started CPR and noticed that she wasn’t breathing.”
“No words would ever describe how we are feeling,” Elizabeth, known as Betty, wrote on Facebook days after the accident. “I can’t even begin to process that it’s real and your not just going to walk through the door.
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