Escalator button ‘alluring to children’

Unprotected red emergency stop buttons on escalators screamed out to children “push me, press me”, a barrister told the Circuit Civil Court yesterday.

Marc Murphy, counsel for Tracie Corcoran, made the comment during the hearing of a €38,000 damages claim for personal injury before Circuit Court president Mr Justice Raymond Groarke.

Ms Corcoran, aged 32, claimed she was injured in August 2011 when she tripped on the last step of an escalator which had stopped at Blanchardstown Shopping Centre, Blanchardstown, Dublin, and fell forward, hurting her right knee.