Los Angeles Amusement Park Children Injuries Attorney

At amusement parks, children are injured more than any other demographic.  Amusement parks and theme parks are generally created to interest and attract younger children.  At most amusement parks, there are rides which young and small children are permitted to ride.  There are then more advanced rides which require minimum age, height and weight minimums.

Dangerous Kiddie Rides

Kiddie rides generally describe those rides which were specifically designed to target children.  Kiddie rides are generally at amusement parks, carnivals, theme parks and even some shopping centers.  Despite them being specifically designed for young children, these kiddie rides can still cause serious injuries to the children riding them as well as the parents who are standing by.  Some of the most common dangers for children on kiddie rides includes:

• Faulty Lap Restraints
  • The lap restraints may be too large to securely hold the children or infants in place where the young child may easily slip through them and fall to the ground and be seriously injured.
• Young and / or Small Children Riding Alone
  • Most rides have height and / or weight maximums which prevent parents from going on the kiddie rides with their children.  When these children are separated from their parents, they attempt to get out of the ride and to return to the safety of their parents.  As these children attempt to exit these moving rides, these children may be seriously injured.
• Carousels
  • Most horses and other pieces on a carousel are designed for older riders.  Where the riders are required to put their legs over a carousel horse, young children's legs are not long enough to be safely restrained.

Fun House Children Injuries

The majority of fun houses have height minimums in which some toddlers are tall enough to be able to enter them.  Some fun houses often injure adults because of the moving floors, spinning rooms, rotating drums, moving stairs, fire, room of mirrors as well as other heavy machinery.  These types of fun houses have seriously injured and even killed young toddlers and children. 

Young children may be unable to keep their balance where they may slip, trip or fall.  Children may also have feet, fingers, hands or other limbs crushed or seriously injured as a direct result of the heavy machinery running a fun house.  Some of the injuries were so flagrant in fun houses that some not-for profit parental groups and organizations recommend that parents never take their children into fun-houses.

Improper Ride Restrictions

There are no federal rules which dictate how old or tall someone must be to ride on an amusement park ride.  Rather, it is up to the amusement park and the designer of the amusement park ride to determine a proper age, height and / or weight limit.  Typically, it is the children that just qualified or satisifed the stated requirements that are seriously injured in the Amusement Park Accident or Theme Park Accident.

If there are improper ride restrictions, the most common types of situations which directly result from this include:

• Children who satisfy or are slightly above the height minimum are unable to remain in the safety harness and are ejected from the ride;
• Children may slide around in the ride because of their weight and the restraint system is unable to properly secure them;
• Children may bounce while on the ride as their minimal weight and the inability of the restraint system to properly secure them;
• Children lack neck and body strength to keep their heads in a safe position during the various G-Forces experienced while on the ride.

Children Seriously Injured on Adult Amusement Park Rides

Within the last few years, amusement parks, theme parks and water parks have attempted to attract more visitors by created faster, higher and more exciting rides.  Along with these goals, the riders of these intense rides are exposed to more severe G-Forces which may seriously injure younger guests.  For those rides which have an age requirement, young children around 7 who also satisfy the height requirements are permitted to ride on these adult rides.  This occurs despite the fact that many experts do not recommend that children under the age of 14 go on these rides because of the extreme G-Forces they will be exposed to.  If your child satisfies the height, age or weight requirements, if you notice that the ride's restraint system fails to fit them in a secure fashion, you should not permit them to ride on that amusement park ride.  Allowing them to unsafely ride for two minutes on an adult amusement park ride may be cut short by a lifetime of permanent injury or even the loss of your child if your child is killed.  Some of these tragedies can be prevented, as no amount of compensation will bring back your child.

Contact Our Amusement Park Children Injury Attorneys

If your child has been seriously injured by an amusement park roller coaster, a theme park ride, or a carnival ride, it is important to contact one of our Los Angeles Amusement Park Children Injury Attorneys.  Most amusement parks will not settle any claims you may have, and they will only begin to speak with you after an Amusement Park Accident Lawyer has filed a lawsuit against them on your behalf.  Our Amusement Park Injury Attorneys are experienced in representing clients and their children who have been seriously injured at Amusement Parks.

Call our Amusement Park Children Injury Lawyer today toll-free for a free confidential consultation at 800-715-4489.