Drunk commuter strangled to death after his own shirt became entangled in escalator
A straphanger was strangled to death during early hours on Sunday when his shirt was pulled into an MTA escalator
In a freak accident, a man was strangled to death by his own shirt after it got caught in a subway escalator and choked him. At around 3.45 am on Sunday, 48-year-old Carlos Alvarez fell onto the escalator at the Intervale Station in the Bronx and his shirt became entangled.
Alvarez tried to free himself as his neckline choked but in vain. Witnesses also tried to help Alvarez during the disturbing incident, Giovanni Fernandez, a bystander, said. "When I got off the train, I saw the guy stuck on the escalator. A lot of people were surrounding him," Fernandez told the New York Post. "He was at the top. I saw the blood. His head was split open. All you see is this guy sprawled face down."