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Woman killed as invalid carriage falls down steps.

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AN elderly woman died yesterday after her motorised invalid carriage plunged 20ft down a flight of concrete steps on to a beach.

The pensioner was riding the carriage along a promenade at Clacton, Essex, at around 11am when the accident happened.

Police said she was dead on arrival at Colchester General Hospital.

A spokesman ...

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