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| Every passenger's nightmare: Lift climbs 31 floors in 15 seconds with the doors open, slamming man into roof | Every passenger's nightmare: Lift climbs 31 floors in 15 seconds with the doors open, slamming man into roof |
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| CCTV footage uploaded to YouTube shows the horrifying moment a lift malfunctioned in Chile and rocketed up a building badly injuring the passenger inside. | CCTV footage uploaded to YouTube shows the horrifying moment a lift malfunctioned in Chile and rocketed up a building badly injuring the passenger inside. |
| Entering a lift comes with a faint sense of foreboding for many of us, such is its claustrophobic confines and lurching vertical trajectory, yet despite there being a word for the fear of buttons (koumpounophobia) there isn't actually a term for this fairly common phobia. | Entering a lift comes with a faint sense of foreboding for many of us, such is its claustrophobic confines and lurching vertical trajectory, yet despite there being a word for the fear of buttons (koumpounophobia) there isn't actually a term for this fairly common phobia. |
| Those who experience it won't be heartened by the video below however, which sees 31-year-old José Vergara Acevedo frantically hammering the elevator's buttons as it hurtles up the shaft of a building in Bustamante Community Park in Providencia, Chile. | Those who experience it won't be heartened by the video below however, which sees 31-year-old José Vergara Acevedo frantically hammering the elevator's buttons as it hurtles up the shaft of a building in Bustamante Community Park in Providencia, Chile. |
| A technical problem prevented the doors from closing and saw the lift pick up speeds of 50mph as it passed 31 floors in 15 seconds. | |
| The CCTV video ends with Acevedo hitting the building's roof, with Emol Chile reporting that he suffered head and leg injuries. | The CCTV video ends with Acevedo hitting the building's roof, with Emol Chile reporting that he suffered head and leg injuries. |
| The elevator was in the Tower B building of the complex, which was apparently finished just eight months ago. | The elevator was in the Tower B building of the complex, which was apparently finished just eight months ago. |