MONTREAL – Montreal police say they will review surveillance video from a subway station where a woman died in a bizarre accident.
The woman was strangled after her scarf, and then her hair, got caught in a subway escalator.
Police say the accident occurred during rush hour when the woman was travelling down the escalator toward the north-end subway platform.
It’s not the first tragic accident in the Montreal subway system in the past year. Last April, a young woman died because she may have been distracted by her cellphone.
Video footage from the subway showed the 20-year-old woman wearing earphones and staring into her smartphone before she stepped into a gap between two cars.
She was dragged for two stops before commuters noticed blood on the tracks.