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  Four-year-old Stevie Webb had his head crushed between two escalators moving in opposite directions earlier this year.   Reports say the accident occurred in the Savacentre in Colliers Wood, south-west London when the boy’s mother talked on the phone. The child somehow got stuck between two escalators. When his clothes got caught in one of the moving conveyances, he was pulled in and was twisted around so violently that his head was pulled down, causing immediate unconsciousness and severe…

Helen Jackson, 82, of Dorchester, Ma, was killed in an accident involving an escalator at the MBTA’s State Street Station, reports say. Jackson was heading to a doctor’s appointment last month while embarking a station escalator when she apparently fell and a piece of her clothing got caught in the machinery, reports say. Emergency crews reportedly rushed to free her, but she was pronounced dead at Massachusetts General Hospital. Jackson also reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest, but it was not…

A three-year-old boy lost a finger recently following an accident on a Macy’s escalator, reports say. Even though doctors tried desperately to save the finger, it was eventually amputated. The boy, Maxlee Gell-Tejada, of Washington Heights, had been trying to retrieve a bottle he had dropped when his finger became caught in a third floor wooden escalator at the Macy’s in Herald Square, reports say. The finger was amputated shortly afterward.   Gell-Tejada is reportedly the latest in a long…

A toddler became seriously injured earlier this year when his left leg became trapped between the escalator skirt and the side of escalator while descending the escalator. The accident, which occurred when the unnamed child somehow caught his foot in the device and then was pulled into the side of the steps of the conveyance, left the child with injuries to both legs. But the end result was serious injuries to his trapped leg, with some parts of his leg…

The body of Hallie Jenkins, a 4-year-old girl missing since her father’s car plunged into a north Houston drainage ditch that killed four other children, has been found, according to reports. The body was discovered along Greens Bayou near Beltway 8, and officials believe it to be the one missing soul from the accident, since the other children’s bodies had already been recovered. Houston’s Chanton B. Jenkins, Hallie’s father, was arrested and charged recently with four counts of intoxication manslaughter. He tested at…