Former Home Secretary Lord Blunkett blasts London Underground 'death trap' after falling into gap at tube station

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Lord Blunkett is calling for action on “death trap” tube platforms after he was injured falling into the gap at Westminster station.

The Labour peer, who is blind, called on Transport for London to do more to keep visually impaired people safe. He was getting on a District Line train with his guide dog three weeks ago when his feet slipped. “As I took a step to get on to the tube train I suddenly felt both my feet disappearing down the gap," he said. “In an instant my body had been propelled forward into the carriage and I was face down on the floor.

My legs had somehow been scraped out of the gap and into the carriage. “I didn’t fully know what had happened. I felt enormous pain in both my legs; they were bruised and grazed,” he wrote in the Sun on Sunday.

Lord Blunkett’s fall came after a recent heart attack that means he must take blood thinners, which make any bruising or bleeding dangerous.