A 39-year-old mother of 2 named Helen Davey has tragically died after her ottoman bed malfunctioned. The bed fell on her neck and asphyxiated her, per the coroner’s report.
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Davey lived in northeastern England and ran a beauty salon. Back in June, she was she “was leaning over the storage area of an Ottoman-styled ‘gas-lift’ bed” when the accident occurred.
The mattress platform on Davey’s bed fell unexpectedly. This trapped “her neck against the upper surface of the side panel of the bed’s base. Unable to free herself, she died of positional asphyxia. One of the two gas-lift pistons was defective,” the coroner’s report reads.
Mother of 2 Found Dead, Crushed by ‘Defective’ Lift Bed
Sadly, Elizabeth was found by her daughter, Davey.
“I went upstairs, my mam’s bedroom door was wide open, and I saw her lying on her back with her head under the bed,” Elizabeth stated. “Her legs were bent as if she was trying to get up. I dropped everything that I was holding and tried to lift the top of the bed off her head.”
“It was so heavy for me to lift it up and try to pull her out. I managed to lift it up. Enough to use my foot to support it.”
“I noticed that her face was blue with a clear indent on her neck from the frame. I managed to pull her clear. But I feared that she was dead as she made no sound. I started CPR and noticed that she wasn’t breathing,” she continued.