A 50-year-old primary school teacher is suing outdoor adventure company Go Ape for £60,000 after shattering her leg on a slide in a playground area ‘aimed at children’.
Rosemary Mountain, 50, suffered a ‘severe’ fracture coming down a 10 to 12m long ‘Big Bounce’ netted fabric tube slide at Go Ape’s Black Park adventure site in February 2019.
Her shoe became caught in the slide, leaving her leg broken in three places, ‘floppy’ and ‘bent in half at 45 degrees’ after the accident. Mrs Mountain, who teaches year one and two children, is now suing Adventure Forest Ltd, trading as Go Ape, over her injuries, claiming the slide – which was later replaced – was ‘too dangerous’ and ‘not reasonably safe for operation.’ Central London County Court heard the area containing the slide was designed for three to 12-year-olds.
But Go Ape are denying all blame and insist there was nothing unsafe about the Nets Kingdom, which was ‘installed by industry specialists’ and regularly inspected for potential hazards. Lawyers for the company also say that Mrs Mountain signed a disclaimer accepting that she was at risk of injury before she went into the Nets Kingdom. The court heard that Mrs Mountain was on a half term visit to the Black Park Go Ape with her husband and her young children when the accident happened.
