RX350 - 5 story elevator shaft tough!
07-18-12, 12:43 PM
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RX350 - 5 story elevator shaft tough!
This happened in the city yesterday, guy walked away relatively unhurt. Turns out he didn't have a license and got a ticket out of the ordeal as well.
A parking attendant miraculously survived a five-story plunge after he reversed a luxury SUV down an empty elevator shaft in an upper East Side garage on Tuesday, authorities said.
Steven Morales was trapped inside the smashed-up Lexus 350 after he accidentally backed it into the shaft on the fifth floor and plunged five stories onto an elevator platform at street level at GMC Parking on E. 76th St between First and Second Aves around 9:45 a.m.
Firefighters pulled Morales from the wrecked vehicle.
He is semi-conscious and nursing a head wound at the hospital, Fred Alston, the president of Garage Employees Local Union No. 272, said.
“He doesn't remember anything other than the firemen busting the windows. He is bleeding from the right side of the back of his head,” Alston said.
After FDNY responders removed Morales from the mangled upside-down vehicle, they brought him and another employee to New York-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center for treatment.
The second worker, Angel Rosa, had been inside the elevator when the car fell on top of it, authorities said.
Speaking to reporters after the incident, a shaken Rosa said he was “absolutely” lucky that he wasn’t more injured in the incident.
"I felt the impact when the car came down," said Rosa, whose wife drove him home from the parking garage. "It sounded like a bomb.”
Rosa said both of his legs were injured and “felt numb,” although FDNY officials said he was able to walk himself out of the elevator once an opening was made.
“I’ll be okay,” Rosa said.
Firefighters used a metal rig to extract the crumpled SUV.
Fire Chief Stephen Geraghty described the rescue effort that involved lowering firefighters onto the platform so they could use the jaws of life to remove the car door.
“We packaged the patient up, we were able to put the guy on a backboard and haul him out to the street,” Geraghty said.
The owner of the Lexus had parked it overnight and was expecting to pick up on Wednesday, a parking attendant said.
Margaret Murray, 59, was walking her dog Tuesday and saw paramedics treating the workers.
“[The driver] was pretty well banged up, but he was alive. They got him out pretty quick," Murray said.
GMC Parking shares the building with Hertz Rent-a-Car.
Steven Morales was trapped inside the smashed-up Lexus 350 after he accidentally backed it into the shaft on the fifth floor and plunged five stories onto an elevator platform at street level at GMC Parking on E. 76th St between First and Second Aves around 9:45 a.m.
Firefighters pulled Morales from the wrecked vehicle.
He is semi-conscious and nursing a head wound at the hospital, Fred Alston, the president of Garage Employees Local Union No. 272, said.
“He doesn't remember anything other than the firemen busting the windows. He is bleeding from the right side of the back of his head,” Alston said.
After FDNY responders removed Morales from the mangled upside-down vehicle, they brought him and another employee to New York-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center for treatment.
The second worker, Angel Rosa, had been inside the elevator when the car fell on top of it, authorities said.
Speaking to reporters after the incident, a shaken Rosa said he was “absolutely” lucky that he wasn’t more injured in the incident.
"I felt the impact when the car came down," said Rosa, whose wife drove him home from the parking garage. "It sounded like a bomb.”
Rosa said both of his legs were injured and “felt numb,” although FDNY officials said he was able to walk himself out of the elevator once an opening was made.
“I’ll be okay,” Rosa said.
Firefighters used a metal rig to extract the crumpled SUV.
Fire Chief Stephen Geraghty described the rescue effort that involved lowering firefighters onto the platform so they could use the jaws of life to remove the car door.
“We packaged the patient up, we were able to put the guy on a backboard and haul him out to the street,” Geraghty said.
The owner of the Lexus had parked it overnight and was expecting to pick up on Wednesday, a parking attendant said.
Margaret Murray, 59, was walking her dog Tuesday and saw paramedics treating the workers.
“[The driver] was pretty well banged up, but he was alive. They got him out pretty quick," Murray said.
GMC Parking shares the building with Hertz Rent-a-Car.
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