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Dishwasher fall kills woman
Kirsty Scott
Thursday May 29, 2003
The Guardian
A 31-year-old woman has died after slipping and falling on to a knife that was lying upright in a dishwasher.
Jane McDonald was visiting a friend at a house in Airdrie in Lanarkshire when the freak accident occurred on Tuesday night. She was rushed to Monklands general hospital but died a short while later.
Strathclyde police said the incident was being treated as a tragic accident and there were no suspicious circum stances. Officers were still outside the detached house in Airdrie yesterday.
The owner was named locally as the Reverend Sharon Colvin, a Church of Scotland minister.
Robert Hutton, a former session clerk of the church, said: “All I know is that it was someone who was staying with her that was involved.”
A neighbour in the cul-de-sac where the accident happened said the emergency services arrived just after 10pm. “We wondered what was happening when we saw all the people. I think there were four or five medics. They must have been there 10 or 15 minutes then the woman was taken away in an ambulance.”
Six years ago a 12-year-old boy in Northampton was killed in a similar accident.
A Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents spokesman said yesterday: “People should, if they can, make sure that they have knives pointing down in the dishwasher even though some manufacturers say otherwise.”