Sir Stirling Moss falls down lift shaftpublished Mon, Mar 08 2010 10:23 GMT
• Moss fell three storeys down lift shaft at home• 80-year-old broke ankles, feet and damaged vertabraeHaving survived several crashes, including the one that forced his premature retirement from motor sport in 1962, Sir Stirling Moss's powers of recovery are undergoing another stern test following a potentially lethal accident at his home.Moss, 80, suffered two broken ankles, four broken bones in his foot, skin abrasions and four chipped vertebrae when he fell down three floors of a lift shaft in his town house in Mayfair.A statement from the Moss family said: "The door to the lift, that should have remained locked if the lift was not on the floor that it was called from, opened in error. He stepped into ...
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