{"id":189651,"date":"2025-06-16T18:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189651\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T18:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:37:12","slug":"birmingham-funfair-crash-which-injured-13-to-feature-in-bbc-panorama-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189651\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham funfair crash which injured 13 to feature in BBC Panorama documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

A funfair incident which left 13 people hurt in Birmingham last year will feature in a BBC<\/a> Panorama documentary.<\/p>\n

Funfairs: How Safe Are They? is set to look into accidents involving rides across the UK.<\/p>\n

Some have left young children ‘completely covered in blood’ and victims thrown out of rides ‘like a ragdoll’, it is reported.<\/p>\n

They are set to be brought to light in a BBC Panorama programme due to be broadcast at 8pm tonight (Monday, June 16).<\/p>\n

It is alleged that some travelling fairground sites and societies are said to have rejected proposed safety measures.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Drug dealer who hid cocaine in Vaseline tubs jailed<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

The Adips (Amusement Device Inspection Procedures Scheme) list has reportedly allowed controversial inspectors to continue in their job.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

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The City Flyer fairground ride in Birmingham, after two people were taken to hospital after an incident on the ride.<\/p>\n

The BBC documentary features a woman who was injured last December when a 180ft Christmas<\/a> fairground ride crashed to the ground in Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The City Starflyer ride, provided by funfair suppliers Danter Attractions, was acclaimed as ‘one of the tallest rides around’.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

Ms Brown suffered injuries to her face, legs and arms, adding that her colleague was also hurt.<\/p>\n

She said: “We were on it having fun and then it just crashed to the ground.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

She collided with a teenage boy and underwent a two-hour operation, needing metal plates in her jaw, following a fairground incident.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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’.<\/p>\n

She said: “I could barely walk, I broke my jaw completely in half. I had damage to my back teeth on both sides.<\/p>\n

“I had internal bruising, severe damage to both thighs, and then just bruising all over my body, like black, purple bruises.”<\/p>\n

Surgeons then had to remove two unsalvageable teeth from Ms Harrison’s mouth before placing three metal plates in her jaw.<\/p>\n

Figures show there were 3,188 funfair related injuries in England, Scotland and Wales between April 2014 and March last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A funfair incident which left 13 people hurt in Birmingham last year will feature in a BBC Panorama…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[77741,855,748,393,77742,77743,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-189651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-bbc-panorama","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-fairground-ride","13":"tag-funfair","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114694497506339515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}