Shocked at Times Square at Fashion Week
* Hannah's got the IT look. She'll go far that's for sure.
Feb 13, 11:56 PM EST
Teen model shocked by stray voltage near Times Square
NEW YORK (AP) -- A teenage model from the U.S. Virgin Islands in town for Fashion Week was shocked by stray voltage when she stepped on an electrical service box near Times Square.
"It was like a stun gun," Hannah Davis, 15, told the New York Post for its Monday editions.
Three other people, including Davis' 25-year-old sister, Rachel Davis, were hurt by the current, the Post said.
Another victim, Alyssa Warwick, told WABC-TV that the stray voltage "felt like electrical shocks and waves going all through my body."
A spokeswoman for IMG Models, which represents Hannah Davis, said she had heard from agency officials that the teen model, who has appeared in several fashion shows, was doing fine and that her mother had saved her life.
"She was with her mother the whole time," spokeswoman Linda Dozoretz said.
The teenager and her sister felt pins and needles in their legs and fell to the ground, the Post said. Their mother was distraught.
"This is crazy," said their mother, Debi Davis. "I could have lost two girls!"
The fire department said two people were hospitalized after emergency responders were called to a report of an electrocution at Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan on Sunday.
A frayed cable had energized the cover of the service box and was repaired, Consolidated Edison utility spokesman Chris Olert said Monday.
Hannah Davis, of St. Thomas, had completed a magazine shoot on Saturday.
Where she was shocked, next to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, is one of the city's busiest areas, usually teeming with commuters and tourists, even late at night. Nearby are several multiplex movie theaters, the Madame Tussaud's wax museum and B.B. King's blues club.
The eight-day New York Fashion Week, a preview of clothes for the fall, ended last week.
A Manhattan woman, Jodie Lane, was killed Jan. 16, 2004, when she stepped on the metal cover of a utility box while walking her dogs. Insulation placed around a wire in the box a year earlier had worn away, Con Ed said.
After Lane's death, Con Ed said it had instituted an aggressive inspection program and fixed stray voltage immediately when it was found.
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i don't think she's creepy at all
anyone else like her?
