Alton Towers injury-what should i do?

tbw

jumblejack wrote: »

How very insulting you are.

We have been to quite a few sealife centres which have these bowl effect windows which are designed for heads to look inside for a 3d effect. I have never come across any that balloon out. To have one of these in a tank next to one that goes in is extremely misleading and is a real safety issue.

I would be happy to see it removed so that other children (they are at a childrens height level) do not have the same injury or worse (it could easily have been a broken nose).

As regards being a leech, what use are the complimentary tickets when your son is autistic and gets distressed by places which are associated with a bad experience?

Personally I don't reckon you should be looking to claim compensation for this. Your son didn't look what he was doing and/or you were not supervising him closely enough to prevent an accident. (That is NOT said as a critisism of you or you parenting skills, its simply a statement of fact). However, if you are just wanting to ensure that Alton Towers take note of a possible H & S issue to prevent other children hurting themselves, then you need to take the problem up to a higher management level.

In any event, I don't see why anyone needed to be so unpleasant in their responses to you - totally uncalled for , unhelpful and just plain nasty. Unfortunately this happens too often on MSE - I've said it before, if you can't say anything helpful or constructive then its best to keep your mouth shut !

Bowling_4_Gold

You can't really expect Alton Towers to replace a specialist window (easily a £500 job) just because some kid ran into it, can you? Anyway, the repair man might get eaten by lions when he replaces it!

I remember when I was a kid I managed to get a nail stuck in my leg joint at my dad's allotment... I didn't sue the council, infact I didn't even go to the hospital, just pulled it out and rubbed some TCP on it.

Get over it. If u really need more compensation, sell the tickets on eBay and have a rant on your listing.

dmg24

jumblejack wrote: »

As regards being a leech, what use are the complimentary tickets when your son is autistic and gets distressed by places which are associated with a bad experience?

Very poor taste to play the disabled card in order to make others look bad.

4743hudsonj

dmg24 wrote: »

Very poor taste to play the disabled card in order to make others look bad.

i think the majority of sane minded good people on here are thinking the words compensation nation and leech

as am i

its not being rude, its just the truth

Takoda

dmg24 wrote: »

Very poor taste to play the disabled card in order to make others look bad.

Some people make themselves look bad without any help from a 'disabled card' LOL

4743hudsonj

Takoda wrote: »

Some people make themselves look bad without any help from a 'disabled card' LOL

op sounds like one of those parents who want to bubblewrap their disabled child and protect it from absolutely everything

anyways i shall stop making judgements now

DebtHater

4743hudsonj wrote: »

op sounds like one of those parents who want to bubblewrap their disabled child and protect it from absolutely everything

hehe maybe we should all chip in and buy the OP one of those skull hats they were flogging on the Apprentice 2 weeks ago :rotfl::rotfl:

scullster

I agree the OP's initial post smelt of compensation, and as quite rightly pointed out, under-16s dentistry is free. I think the majority have ruled and made their point albeit at times pretty bluntly but the point is made and I can't disagree.

However, re: "it has been passed by the H&S dept", this is not the definitive proof that a hazard does not exist in all cases. It may have been passed at the design and build phase, but designers don't always get it right - many a design has been amended post-installation as the injury frequency has been substantially higher than originally considered.

In this situation, as a minimum, it should've been recorded in the accident book. Their H&S policy will almost certainly review accident book / near miss entries periodically and assess whether there are any patterns and rectify as appropriate. So my advice to the OP would be to ensure that as an injury did result, simply ensure that the event was appropriately recorded and accept the goodwill that has been offered (give them to family / friends if necessary).

Pixulated

If I were you I would try and find out if there were any previous injuries from the same area or same kind of thing first. I would also look into some of those injury websites.

4743hudsonj

Pixulated wrote: »

If I were you I would try and find out if there were any previous injuries from the same area or same kind of thing first. I would also look into some of those injury websites.

personal injury sites?

thats very OTT and uncalled for

just fuelling the greed of some people