Which has now been closed as well...
Going to save us a few ££ on not renewing our Merlin passes if they don't reopen it, since it's one of the few rides we can all go on together, and it's my partner and little boy's favourite
11 year old girl dies at drayton manor theme park
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Which has now been closed as well...
Going to save us a few ££ on not renewing our Merlin passes if they don't reopen it, since it's one of the few rides we can all go on together, and it's my partner and little boy's favourite
It will be standard procedure to close the same/similar style rides as happened when the Smiler accident occurred when they closed all rides from the same manufacturer. They will reopen them all if no fault is found with the ride or cars etc or implement any necessary changes that maybe deemed necessary.
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The Rapids incident was a bit different though. It was down to being the lack of a teacher or other responsible adult to enforce what the signs said "no standing while on the ride". So what Thorpe Park, Lego Land and Alton Towers did smacks of a knee-jerk reaction to me.
Yes unlike the ATer's the Smiler incident DM or it's staff aren't at all at fault here, i have absolutely no qualms going on a Grand Rapids ride but rides like the smiler with your legs exposed at speed in such a manner i would definately have second thoughts about going on.
It hadn't been mentioned for over a day before you decided to bring it back up again.
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Very sad. RIP. 
However, with the information that's been realised I'd go so far as to say that I'd expect the school to face some form of legal action for the lack of supervision.
They will have a student to teacher ratio to abide by, risk assessments and a duty of care to supervise and control the kids. Yes, the girl is responsible for her actions but as she is so young that legally the school will be expected to take more precautions for something like this. I'd fully expect the enforcement authorities to focus heavily on the school and the theme park to weed out the failure(s).
No doubt the HSE will be crawling over the park for the foreseeable future and the school will be sweating bullets as they're questioned. Let's not forget that the staff at Drayton Manor will be finding it hard to deal with, particular those in the immediate area/responding. Something like this will see staff in pieces for a long time.
However, with the information that's been realised I'd go so far as to say that I'd expect the school to face some form of legal action for the lack of supervision.
They will have a student to teacher ratio to abide by, risk assessments and a duty of care to supervise and control the kids. Yes, the girl is responsible for her actions but as she is so young that legally the school will be expected to take more precautions for something like this. I'd fully expect the enforcement authorities to focus heavily on the school and the theme park to weed out the failure(s).
No doubt the HSE will be crawling over the park for the foreseeable future and the school will be sweating bullets as they're questioned. Let's not forget that the staff at Drayton Manor will be finding it hard to deal with, particular those in the immediate area/responding. Something like this will see staff in pieces for a long time.
Very sad. RIP.
However, with the information that's been realised I'd go so far as to say that I'd expect the school to face some form of legal action for the lack of supervision.
They will have a student to teacher ratio to abide by, risk assessments and a duty of care to supervise and control the kids. Yes, the girl is responsible for her actions but as she is so young that legally the school will be expected to take more precautions for something like this. I'd fully expect the enforcement authorities to focus heavily on the school and the theme park to weed out the failure(s).
No doubt the HSE will be crawling over the park for the foreseeable future and the school will be sweating bullets as they're questioned. Let's not forget that the staff at Drayton Manor will be finding it hard to deal with, particular those in the immediate area/responding. Something like this will see staff in pieces for a long time.
I heard that they had the required adults to children ratio.
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Its all based on height, height to ride accompanied, height to ride alone.
Always has been, nothing related to numbers of adults that must accompany.
School trips, which this was, require a certain number of adults per child.
Ratio for this age group is 1:10 / 1:15 depending on the risk. Drayton's website currently says there is a free adult ticket available per 5 kids, AT does it for every 10 kids. We were never directly supervised on theme park trips once in the park (even at 12).
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Yes, they do.
I am very aware of that.
It doesn't change the parks rules, that kids can get onto a ride unaccompanied if they make the height.
I appreciate that they use height rather than age as that's easier to measure. So they'll just increase the height then as proxy.