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Woman's fatal fall from wheelchair in sloping car park examined by Tasmanian coroner

A coroner has found that an "undesirably steep disability car park" and a failure to effectively engage all of the brakes on a wheelchair contributed to the fatal fall of a 90-year-old woman.

The woman suffered fatal injuries when she fell from her wheelchair in the car park of Hobart Eye Surgeons in Argyle Street, in Hobart's CBD in December 2019.

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