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Alton Towers crash: four teenagers seriously injured on Smiler ride

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Post by Guest Tue Jun 02, 2015 8:09 pm

Of the 16 people involved in the incident, four have “significant lower limb injuries”, reports the Guardian’s Damian Gayle, who is at the scene.

A senior paramedic who spoke at the earlier press conference added: “Of the other 12 we now believe they will be walking wounded patients and the delay has just been extricating them from the cars.”

Of the four critically injured, two women in their mid twenties have gone to to the Royal Stoke University Hospital and two men have gone to the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire.

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/live/2015/jun/02/alton-towers-crash-four-teenagers-seriously-injured-smiler-ride-live-updates

Apparently some were stuck on the ride for about 4 hours.


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Post by Guest Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:01 pm

very scary imagine being trapped for four hours.
I hope those who were injured will recover well

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Post by eddie Wed Jun 03, 2015 7:35 am

Horrible freak accident.
These rides do normally have a good track record fir safety.

Hope the wounded recover well and thank god there were no deaths.
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Post by Guest Wed Jun 03, 2015 8:40 am

Apparently the ride has had a history of faults. The Daily Mail is reporting one of the injured lost a leg.  It must have been horrific Sad

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