A woman in the United Kingdom died of suffocation after becoming trapped in her bed sofa

Last June a British woman died under mysterious circumstances in her roomHelen Davy, 39, from Seaham (County Durham), she was standing next to her bed’s storage area when the mechanism piston failed and she was trapped inside.

Now, months later, the coroner in charge of the case has confirmed that death resulted from the fatal incident, which caused the woman to suffocate when she became trapped at neck level between the base of the sofa and the base of the bed. Durham’s senior coroner Jeremy Chipperfield has warned These types of beds may pose a risk in the event of mechanism failure.

Chipperfield, who has ruled the death accidental, also wrote to ministers warning that, If preventive measures are not taken, new such cases may occur.“The deceased was leaning over the storage area of ​​an Ottoman-style ‘gas lift bed’ when the mattress platform unexpectedly dropped down, trapping his neck on the upper surface of the side panel of the bed base,” they said in a statement. ” Death prevention report collected by The Northern Echo.

According to the coroner, He could not free himself and died of suffocation.And, as he explains, one of the mechanism’s lifting pistons was defective, causing it to fail. The report was sent to the Secretary of State for Commerce and Trade and the Office of Standards and Product Safety.

It was his 19 year old daughter Elizabeth, The first to know what happened“I went upstairs, the door to my mother’s room was open and I saw her lying on her back with her head at the bottom of the bed,” he said in a statement read out during questioning at Crook Magistrates’ Court.

According to the coroner, When the piston failed, the bed would push it down.“Probably first forward. It’s hard to imagine how it ended. “It may have been part of the struggle that happened when he was trying to get up,” he said.