Crystal Peaks: Emergency services called after incident on escalator at popular Sheffield shopping centre
Emergency services were called to a Sheffield shopping centre after an incident on an escalator.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service deployed medics to Crystal Peaks shopping centre, Waterthorpe, after reports that a man had fallen down the escalator.
A spokesman for the shopping centre confirmed that an ambulance had been called, and the escalator switched off while paramedics were on the scene.
It was switched back on when they had left, he added.
Eyewitness reports describe the man being taken out of the centre centre on a stretcher after haven fallen backwards on Monday morning.
It was confirmed that he was taken to hospital after the incident.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service told The Star: “We received an emergency call at 10.41am on Monday, December 8 to report a person who had fallen on an escalator at the Crystal Peaks shopping centre in Sheffield.
“An ambulance was dispatched to the scene and one patient was conveyed to hospital.”
Crystal Peaks is a major indoor shopping centre in the south east of Sheffield.