Fairground Ride Accident
Two teenagers have been injured after a carriage on a fairground ride fell off while it was spinning around.
Fairground manager describes ride collapse in his own words
Kennedy Bates, a director at Billy Bates & Sons Funfair, talks through the accident in his own words.
He describes hearing a load bang and a panic when people on the ride realised what had happened.
Two teenagers are in hospital after a carriage fell off the moving ride in Abbey Park in Leicester.
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