A PRIMARY school teacher is suing Go Ape for £60,000 after her leg allegedly bent in half and shattered on a slide aimed at young children.
Rosemary Mountain suffered a “severe” fracture when her trainer got caught and her leg was “dragged round behind her”.
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Rosemary Mountain said she snapped her leg while at Go ApeCredit: Champion News Service
She was going down this slide at the timeCredit: Supplied by Champion News
At the time she was coming down a 10 to 12m-long slide called the “Big Bounce” at Go Ape’s Black Park adventure site near Slough.
The tube slide was in the site’s Nets Kingdom area, which Central London County Court heard was designed for three to 12-year-olds.
Rosemary, 50, claims she was left with a leg broken in so many places it was “floppy” and said her shin “bent in half at 45 degrees”.
She is now suing Adventure Forest Ltd, trading as Go Ape, for about £60,000 over her injuries – claiming the slide, which was later replaced, was “too dangerous” and “not reasonably safe for operation.”
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But Go Ape are denying all blame and insist there was nothing unsafe about the area, which was “installed by industry specialists” and regularly inspected for potential hazards.
Lawyers for the company also say Rosemary signed a disclaimer accepting that she was at risk of injury before she went into the Nets Kingdom.
The court heard the teacher was on a half term visit to the adventure park with her husband and her young children in February 2019 when the accident happened.
Rosemary told how the family wanted to leave so used the slide as the most convenient exit, with her husband and kids going first.
