Alton Towers operator Merlin Attractions has been fined £5 million at Stafford Crown Court after admitting health and safety breaches over The Smiler rollercoaster crash.
The crash left two teenagers needing leg amputations, and several other victims with serious injuries.
Several victims of the crash were in court, where the hearing was told the force of the rash was equivalent to a family car crashing at 90mph.
Alton Towers operator Merlin Attractions has been fined £5 million after admitting health and safety failings which led to the Smiler rollercoaster crash.
Two teenagers - Vicky Balch, then 19, and Leah Washington, then 17 - each lost a leg in the collision in June last year which "changed the lives of some of those injured in the most dramatic way", according to a judge.
Stafford Crown Court heard that the victims had watched with "disbelief and horror" before ploughing into an empty carriage on the track, with the impact likened by the prosecution to a 90mph car crash.
The company was fined after the court heard that an engineer "felt pressure" to get Smiler back into service after it developed a fault shortly before the devastating crash.
A video showing the moment a carriage on the Smiler rollercoaster at Alton Towers crashed into an empty car has been shown in court.
Merlin, the operator of the park, has been told it should expect a "very large fine" for breaching health and safety.