Ride Injuries Related to Extreme Forces exerted on Human Body Increase
Continued from Part 2. Our amusement ride injury attorneys note that theme park industry safety assertions aside, the incidence of brain injuries, neck injuries, and g-force induced loss of consciousness seems to have increased along with the extreme thrills offered by new rides created with computer-aided design.
Some of the injuries seem to be among the large populations of riders that now suffer from obesity and diabetes. As the rider population at large begins to come to amusement parks and carnivals with pre-existing medical conditions, ride designers need to incorporate safety precautions regarding those conditions. Most obese people and people with diabetes continue to live normal lives not very different from those of us without those conditions. Ride designers can’t simply ask them to stay away from the amusement rides that attract millions of riders each year. It would be unrealistic and offensive.
More than 320 million Americans visit amusement parks each year. There are billions of individual rides at these parks every year. Thousands of emergency room visits and the occasional fatality result. Our amusement ride injury attorneys note that there are hundreds of thousands of emergency room visits from sports each year as well, with millions of Americans taking part in these activities as well.
Reported Numbers of Amusement Park Injuries might be much Lower than the Actual Numbers
But amusement parks aren’t consistently regulated and many aren’t required to report injuries. So the number of injuries interested parties can find from CPSC data, state agencies, and medical literature is probably much lower than the actual number of injuries related to amusement rides.
The fact remains that amusement rides can cause serious injury and even death. Poor ride maintenance and ride operator inattention or experience are often behind tragic accidents. But our amusement ride injury attorneys emphasize that sometimes design flaws also contribute to dangerous accidents.
Consider the design of the Sea Dragon ride from which a center mast collapsed during a ride in New Jersey causing injury. A look at the Sea Dargon technical specs showed even the casual observer that shearing forces on the connecting hardware attaching the mast to the ride was likely to bring that mast down at some point. And that center mast did collapse, causing very serious injuries to one young rider and less severe injuries to others. Injured victims of such accidents may have to live with disfigurements from the accidents for the rest of their lives.
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