DEATH TRAP
Boy, 7, crushed to death by elevator on first day of family vacation hours after arriving at $14k-a-week rental
Updated: 0:58 ET, Jul 15 2021
A TRAGEDY unfolded when a seven-year-old boy was trapped between the elevator doors of his family s luxury vacation home in North Carolina.
Officials said the boy s head and neck were crushed by the elevator, which had an accordion gate inside the outer door of the home elevator.
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The Ohio family had arrived at their luxury vacation home just hours before the deadly tragedy occurredCredit: Twiddy Vacation Rentals
Emergency responders were called to the vacation home at about 6.40pm Sunday evening in response to a report that a child was trapped in the elevator.
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A seven-year-old boy from Ohio died in an accident involving an elevator at a vacation rental home in Corolla over the weekend.
Currituck Fire-EMS and Corolla Fire and Rescue were dispatched Sunday at 7:40 p.m. to the 1100 block of Franklyn Street in the Corolla Light neighborhood, according to Currituck Fire-EMS Chief Ralph Melton.
Emergency responders arrived moments later to find a the child without a pulse and still entrapped by the elevator.