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.
A mother-of-two who suffered serious abdominal injuries in last year's Smiler rollercoaster crash at Alton Towers said the accident had changed her from a "confident" person to one whose family had been left "totally broken".
Speaking outside Stafford Crown Court, where the theme park's owner Merlin was fined £5 million for health and safety failings, Chanda Chauhan, from Wednesbury in the West Midlands, said: "I did think it (the fine) was going to be more but as I said before it is still irrelevant to what situation we're still in.
"I'm scared to go in a car even now but I do it because I have to, I'm a mother and I want to be independent and it's taken me nearly a year just to be out here like this.
"My personal message to Merlin, to the legal side - just do the right thing and look after us all.
"Psychologically, psychiatric effects on people are invisible but they are there, do not be fooled. We struggle every day with it."
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.