In Plainfield, the state of new Jersey, 67-year-old woman suffered serious injuries, not noticing the sidewalk open the door, said NBC.
On recordings from surveillance cameras can be seen as a woman is, sending or receiving text messages on your phone, and a second later falls down. Passerby tries to help her, reaches out, but the woman has disappeared in the pit.
«She was looking at my phone, and then tripped over the open door and fell down,» he told the eyewitness of incident Martin Delgadillo. «I used to think that texting behind the wheel is bad. Now I understand that while walking it is also better not to do that,» he says.
According to officials, the door was open, so the workers performed the repair of the pipeline.
The victim was hospitalized. She suffered multiple injuries after a fall, her condition is estimated as heavy.
