A driver died in an accident Thursday morning after getting pinned to a ticket machine while trying to exit an Atlanta parking garage, police say.
Thursday morning after he was pinned to a ticket machine as he was trying to leave an Atlanta parking garage, police said.
Officers responded to a Peachtree Street parking deck in the Midtown neighborhood just after midnight. Police said the driver forgot to put his truck in park as he opened his door to reach the machine that operates the exit gate. The vehicle rolled forward while he was partly outside it, pinning him to the kiosk.The parking garage is used by The Starling Atlanta Midtown hotel, NBC affiliateAn investigation continues, police said.
The man was killed nearly two years after a 23-year-old Columbus, Ohio, woman was killed as she tried to leave a parking deck., dropped her card shortly after 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 18, 2021, as she was trying to pay for parking, Columbus police said. When she opened her door and leaned over to pick up the card, she inadvertently accelerated and hit the parking kiosk, police said.Julianne McShane