CHAVAKKAD: An aged man died after hitting his head on the glass door in front of a shop. The dead is Usman Haji, aged 84, of Manathala. He was a retired official of navy and an expatriate Malayalee.

Usman came to buy dry fruits from the shop. The accident happened when he was climbing the steps of the shop hastily without noticing the glass door in the front. He fell on the ground after hitting his head and sustained deep injuries at the back of his head. Though he was rushed to the hospital, his life could not be saved. The CCTV footages of the accident have surfaced.

A failure to recognize the glass door has led to many accidents. 45-year-old Beena from Cheranallur died after a splinter from a broken glass door at the entrance of a bank pierced her stomach in Perumbavoor. The glass door at the entrance shattered after the woman crashed into it while she was rushing out to collect the keys of her two-wheeler parked in front of the branch.

Such accidents are often caused by the absence of a warning.