elevator accident

A state inspector found in March that the elevator that killed an Allston woman this week had a stop-switch problem, but a month later the company that services the elevator told regulators it had fixed the issue, according to inspection records made public Wednesday. On Monday, 38-year-old Boston University lecturer Carrie O’Connor died in an elevator accident at an...

Authorities continue to investigate an elevator accident in Boston’s Allston neighborhood this week that killed a 38-year-old woman and left neighbors in shock. Boston police say Carrie O’Connor — a French lecturer at Boston University — died of traumatic asphyxiation from the incident that occurred Monday. Her death was deemed accidental. Here’s what we know about the accident. Boston...

The woman who died in an elevator accident in Boston’s Allston neighborhood Monday has been identified as the investigation into what happened in the case continues. Boston police said Tuesday she was Carrie O’Connor, 38, and she died of traumatic asphyxiation. Her death was deemed accidental. Boston University confirmed that O’Connor was a French lecturer at the school. Her...

A woman was killed in an elevator accident inside her Allston apartment building.

Police and Boston University have identified Carrie O’Connor, a French lecturer at at the school, as the woman who died in an elevator accident in Allston. Witnesses said it was horrifying.

A woman was killed and another person was injured Monday afternoon in an apparent elevator accident at a building in Boston’s Allston neighborhood, police said. Emergency medical services responded about 5:15 p.m. to a building at Commonwealth Avenue and Thorndike Street, where police said a woman in her late 30s involved in the incident was pronounced dead. Another person...

Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the accident, which claimed the life of a woman in her 30s on Monday in Allston.