An enjoyable day out at an amusement park for one family ended in horror as a three-year-old girl was thrown from a ride when staff “forgot” to secure her in her seat.
Amelia Horn, 27, was watching her three-year-old daughter Gracie on a ‘Race o Rama’ ride at Redcar resort in North Yorkshire, England, when she suddenly “flew into the air” as it rounded a corner.
"As the ride went really fast round a corner, my daughter flew into the air and smashed her body then head hard onto the floor and against the railings," Amelia wrote on Facebook after the incident.
The young mother said the woman controlling the ride didn't notice her daughter had fallen from the ride, and it wasn't until another onlooker stepped in to pull her daughter to safety that Gracie was saved.
"The young girl controlling the ride watched me run over the moving ride grab my daughter off the floor screaming her head off and crying her eyes out," Amelia wrote.
"The girl still left the ride going and ran over to me crying saying she was so sorry she's forgot to put the children's seat belts on!"
Little Gracie suffered cuts and bruises as a result of being thrown from the ride.
Speaking to the Evening Gazette, Amelia said that if it wasn't for the Good Samaritan, her daughter "could have been killed".
"I was crying my eyes out thinking about what could have happened, it was so dangerous," she said.
"The manager then told us that Gracie could have as many free goes on the ride as she wanted, which is ridiculous as I'd never let her go on it again."
She said her daughter is "traumatised" after the incident and will probably "never go on a ride again".
The amusement park has yet to respond to the mother's claims.
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I hope that this mother sues!!!
God bless that sweet little girl and the good samaritan that saved her.
Omg my 8 year old daughter (now 10) went on those dodgem cars (i call them dodgy cars, now) and she was happily playing when her wire must of touched somethimg it shouldnt have and a big flame bursted out and sparks rained down on her, singeing her clothes, skin and hair. I had a surreal ten seconds wondering if im watching my baby get electrocuted.
I screamed and jumoed the rains and she screamed and cowered.
The operator was lovely he stpped the ride and wouldnt let anyone else ride and gave us a card of i guess it was a lawyer because he said if she has serious injurys record everything.
I know how traumatic it can be for everyone.