Injuries at UK amusement parks rocket to almost 500 a year
The official data was released to an MP concerned about a string of recent high profile incidents at theme parks, including a crash at Alton Towers in June last year which left two people needing leg amputations and a ride derailment at M&D’s in North Lanarkshire in June in which nine people were injured.
Northern Ireland MP Jim Shannon, of the Democratic Unionist Party, said he believed the public would be shocked at the scale of injuries and the government should consider if its regulation of funfairs and amusement parks is strong enough.
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