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View Poll Results: Should Alton Towers Re-Open The Smiler
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Old 11-05-2016, 08:15 PM #76
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Damn... I bet she got whisked away quickly
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Damn... I bet she got whisked away quickly
Yep, she has to live with her carelessness but the owners of the park are ultimately responsible.
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No concern for human life at all.
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No concern for human life at all.
I don't think its because she or the park owners had no concern for human life. The last thing any of those people wanted was for park attendees to come to any harm.

The exact thing that caused this accident was human error but she alone was not responsible, in fact she was the least responsible because the people who trained her and who she has to answer to, were not following procedures to ensure she couldn't make the very mistake she made.
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An update....

The Smiler has a number of things that can go wrong. One of those things is a loose empty carriage on the track. This is called 'valleying' and when valleying happens, an alarm goes off in the control room. Once the valleying alarm goes off, the ride must be stopped/halted and the vast camera system must be checked for a stray carriage on the line.

The problem is, the valleying alarm goes off half a dozen times a day and this member of staff, a woman, happened to become complacent. She says she stopped the ride and checked the cameras but didn't see anything else on the track. The likelihood is, she didn't check anything.

Now here's an interesting thing and something the press have yet to pick up on. Before a ride like this is opened it has to go through rigorous tests and part of those tests are sending the trains along with crash dummies, round the tracks hundreds of times. During that testing an almost identical incident happened and the crash dummies received severe leg crush. The system was modified to be more sensitive but the problem with that is, the warning alarm became such a regular occurrence that at least one person didn't continue to take it seriously.

All compensation has now been settled but because health and safety was breached, there will be a £multi-million fine.

The ride is running again.
As evidence goes, claiming that the "likelihood is" that she didn't check, is just about as flimsy as you can get. Blame it on the lowest operator seems to be the norm.
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An update....

The Smiler has a number of things that can go wrong. One of those things is a loose empty carriage on the track. This is called 'valleying' and when valleying happens, an alarm goes off in the control room. Once the valleying alarm goes off, the ride must be stopped/halted and the vast camera system must be checked for a stray carriage on the line.

The problem is, the valleying alarm goes off half a dozen times a day and this member of staff, a woman, happened to become complacent. She says she stopped the ride and checked the cameras but didn't see anything else on the track. The likelihood is, she didn't check anything.

Now here's an interesting thing and something the press have yet to pick up on. Before a ride like this is opened it has to go through rigorous tests and part of those tests are sending the trains along with crash dummies, round the tracks hundreds of times. During that testing an almost identical incident happened and the crash dummies received severe leg crush. The system was modified to be more sensitive but the problem with that is, the warning alarm became such a regular occurrence that at least one person didn't continue to take it seriously.

All compensation has now been settled but because health and safety was breached, there will be a £multi-million fine.

The ride is running again.
This can't be an official response?...
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