Lift crash estate residents reveal previous incidents at Tsuen Wan complex
Revelations come after freak accident on Sunday that injured two people, while early investigations reveal no systematic issue with brand
One resident of Block 3 at the Waterside Plaza in Tsuen Wan told a radio programme on Tuesday she had once been trapped in a lift and had heard of at least two other such cases in the past year.
She also highlighted issues such as the bottom of the lift being two inches higher than the floor of the building and the doors only opening for one to two seconds.
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“If no one is inside, the lift will always go back to the 40th floor until someone presses the button to another floor,” she said.
A resident from Block 4 said a woman and her grandchild had been trapped in a lift for 15 minutes. She blamed it on poor management and claimed there were issues with lifts in all blocks of the development that had resulted in discontent among the residents.
On Sunday, a couple, both 32, and a male resident got into a lift on the ground floor. The man got out on the seventh floor and the couple, who live on the 15th floor, continued their ascent. But instead of stopping at the 15th floor, the lift continued to the top floor of the 46-storey residential block.
