Funfairs: How Safe Are They? will look into the City Starflyer incident
Ther City Starflyer ride malfunctioned and plummeted to the ground in Centenary Square
A funfair incident which left 13 people hurt in Birmingham last year will feature in a BBC Panorama documentary.
Funfairs: How Safe Are They? is set to look into accidents involving rides across the UK.
Some have left young children ‘completely covered in blood’ and victims thrown out of rides ‘like a ragdoll’, it is reported.
They are set to be brought to light in a BBC Panorama programme due to be broadcast at 8pm tonight (Monday, June 16).
It is alleged that some travelling fairground sites and societies are said to have rejected proposed safety measures.
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The Adips (Amusement Device Inspection Procedures Scheme) list has reportedly allowed controversial inspectors to continue in their job.
The HSE has now said it is reviewing its industry safety guidance ‘to decide whether it, and the system it underpins, remains fit for purpose’, DailyMail reports.
The City Flyer fairground ride in Birmingham, after two people were taken to hospital after an incident on the ride.
The BBC documentary features a woman who was injured last December when a 180ft Christmas fairground ride crashed to the ground in Birmingham.
The City Starflyer ride, provided by funfair suppliers Danter Attractions, was acclaimed as ‘one of the tallest rides around’.
Louise Brown said in the aftermath: “This can never happen again – we are in shock and all I can think of is what if my kids were on the ride.”
Ms Brown suffered injuries to her face, legs and arms, adding that her colleague was also hurt.
She said: “We were on it having fun and then it just crashed to the ground.
“It felt like we were descending, not at the highest point but still quite high. We just dropped. It went backwards first though, which I’ve never seen it do before.”
The programme will also highlight an incident on the Airmaxx 360 ride at Hull Fair which left Jade Harrison, then 21, with a broken jaw and lost tooth when she was thrown 15ft out of her seat in October 2019.
She collided with a teenage boy and underwent a two-hour operation, needing metal plates in her jaw, following a fairground incident.
Speaking to the BBC, Ms Harrison described hearing a ‘clicking noise’ in her back and the ride going on for about a minute and a half before it changed direction and was the last ‘concrete thing’ she remembered.
Ms Harrison told how she could feel herself ‘slip’ and that when she woke up she had a ‘bit of amnesia’ before starting to panic as she felt ‘something wasn’t right’ in her mouth as it felt like all her teeth had ‘gone’.
She said: “I could barely walk, I broke my jaw completely in half. I had damage to my back teeth on both sides.
“I had internal bruising, severe damage to both thighs, and then just bruising all over my body, like black, purple bruises.”
Surgeons then had to remove two unsalvageable teeth from Ms Harrison’s mouth before placing three metal plates in her jaw.
Figures show there were 3,188 funfair related injuries in England, Scotland and Wales between April 2014 and March last year.