Louisiana family who says they were mangled by that escalator at Back Bay sues, asks that it not be repaired until they can have their own expert examine it

A Louisiana household who mislaid astir everything successful Hurricane Ida who came up present to ticker the Saints play the Patriots connected Sunday got disconnected a bid aft the crippled astatine Back Bay were connected that escalator that abruptly went into reverse, throwing them down and mangling them - they assertion successful a suit against the MBTA and the institution contracted with maintaining the device.

Negligence suits are not usually filed truthful rapidly aft an incident, but successful their suit, filed yesterday successful Suffolk Superior Court, Karson and Holly Bethay of Metairie, LA, asked for an exigency bid to artifact the T and Kone, Inc. from touching the escalator until they tin person their ain adept instrumentality a look for immoderate imaginable evidence. In further to carnal grounds astatine Back Bay, their attorneys are besides seeking entree to each of the records the T and Kone person related to the escalator - which the T says Kone had inspected conscionable 3 weeks earlier. And they inquire that their adept beryllium allowed to oversee immoderate repair enactment pursuing an archetypal inspection.

According to their complaint, the couple, on with their children Karson, Jr. and Savannah, took an MBTA bid to the Patriots/Saints game, which their favorites won, past took the bid backmost to Back Bay. After getting disconnected the train, astir 6 p.m.

The escalator malfunctioned portion the Bethay household was utilizing the escalator causing each the steps oregon treads of the escalator to rapidly reverse absorption causing them, and galore different passengers, to descent and autumn down to the bottommost of the escalator.

The Bethay household sustained aggregate injuries arsenic a results of the escalator's malfunction and failure, including aggregate fractures of the precocious and little extremities; extended facial, scalp, caput and assemblage lacerations and different injuries.

The Bethay household was transported to the Massachusetts General Hospital wherever they were admitted connected an inpatient basis.

The ailment adds the household is present facing important expenses for aesculapian and rehabilitation care, successful summation to the symptom and anguish the incidental caused them.