School elevator that injured three girls should have been fixed, officials say

 
BY BRYAN DEAN and SILAS ALLEN
Published: November 18, 2011

A moment of curiosity led three Oklahoma City girls through a normally locked school door into an elevator shaft where they were nearly crushed, the girls said Thursday.

Oklahoma City Superintendent Karl Springer said the door to the older, lift-style elevator at Classen School of Advanced Studies shouldn't have been open or unlocked Tuesday when the girls were trapped around 11 a.m. The door was apparently s...


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