She wasn’t “trapped”, she had a seizure with no one around to help and being unable to open the stall door is irrelevant.
The same could have happened in her own bathroom or even in her front yard.
Unfortunately, you can't sue your front yard. ;-)
The same could have happened in her own bathroom or even in her front yard.
Yeah...but where's the money in that???
No, they are saying because they couldn’t get in to help her.
From the article:
“McCarthy could not reach the door handle, so she started screaming for help.
“I pulled the handle,” Knox said. “The handle broke off in my hand.”
Knox said the lock could only be accessed from the inside of the restroom. He said he did whatever he could to try to pry the door open, but nothing worked.
When firefighters arrived, they had to use an axe to smash open the door and get the mother of four to the hospital, Knox said.
“If I would have gotten to the door when I heard her and I opened the door, she would have been standing here today,” Knox said.
McCarthy’s sons said doctors claimed she had brain damage from a prolonged lack of oxygen.”
Actually it’s possible there was no stall inside a larger room, and it was just the locked restroom. In that case there should have been a key to open it from the outside. If the door lock did not have a key then they will win the case, which will likely never go to trial.
I don’t think it was a stall. They could have gotten her out by pulling her under a stall door. This has to be one of the individual style restrooms.