Alton Towers Crash Survivors - One Year On | This Morning

[@shannonwilliams8920]

These kids are so strong!!!!!! Their strength is inspiring!!!

[@MaximusDecImuS3]

Kids?

[@jorgenvonstrangle4725]

the ride shouldn't be open following this

[@MaximusDecImuS3]

@@jorgenvonstrangle4725 but tell me why don’t just say it should be closed give me reasons

[@jorgenvonstrangle4725]

@@MaximusDecImuS3 1. 4 four people were serious injured in the this ride 2. The victims of this ride requested to stay closed as they found it painful to watch people enjoying the ride that changed their lives 3. if this had any other riding in AT it would have closed and been replaced with something but oh no because this breaks records it has stay open or that is what it feels like to me. so to me it just feels that AT put the money before the victims if this had been any ride in the park or any other theme park for that matter if would have been replaced they knew there was issues with it before this accident occurred

[@MaximusDecImuS3]

@@jorgenvonstrangle47253 people asking won’t close a whole ride and it’s perfectly safe now

[@adam2.075]

I feel so sorry for these people. I can tell they look very traumatised over that horrific accident. It's not right for them, they deserve better.

[@jorgenvonstrangle4725]

Alton Tower I think could have done more for them. They should shut of shut this ride down following this accident safe or not now.

[@avessstella]

@@jorgenvonstrangle4725I think if there were a significant number of deaths then there would be a memorial made. I do think there should be something else done though i completely agree

[@JonstoneMCF]

@@avessstella they have no reason to shut the ride down, it's perfectly safe

[@avessstella]

@@JonstoneMCF i never said the ride wasn’t safe. You have replied to the wrong person

[@JonstoneMCF]

@@avessstella oh sorry, meant to reply to @jorgenvonstrangle4725

[@MsFated]

For anyone angry yet ride is till open, the incident was very much caused by human errors and lack of communication between the staff that day, it was nothing to do with the ride itself. The ride operated as expected. The Smiler ride actually did the right safety precautions by automatically stopping their cart when it sensed another cart close by but a human overrid that safety cuz no one told him a test cart was sent which never completed its course. After the incident Merlin added more cameras for visibility of the ride, they added feature that now couldn’t allow the ride operator to restart the cart if the cart’s safety kicked in and all the staff under went strict training.

[@chilli943]

If the safety systems were as good as everyone always claims, it would never have allowed manual override causing a train to enter an occupied block.

[@MsFated]

@@chilli943 hence that is a HUMAN fault. They are the ones who initially designed it that way so it can be override by staff engineers and that’s why they changed it after.

[@chilli943]

@@MsFated if the safety system was as good as it could have been; it wouldn’t have allowed for human fault.

[@MsFated]

@@chilli943 SMH

[@blurryyu]

@@chilli943 there are always glitches in a system, however on a rollercoaster, when a system glitches, it STOPS the train rather than sending it when it wasnt supposed to. thats why human overrides exist, because if there were no human overrides, the ride would almost never be open since once it glitched 1 time, it wouldnt be able to open again

[@Hubblybubblyisthegoat]

I love how Leah always has Vickys back and Vicky always has leahs back, and now there are best friemds forever because of the incident.

[@Astrastarlis]

I saw a KZbinr covering the entire accident and it made me so angry on how easy it could be prevented

[@jaxen7892]

was it eleanor neale?

[@orange_turtle3412]

Workers were pressured into forgoing safety to keep it running. Classic case of corporate greed ruining peoples’ lives

[@MariaSantillan-vx8qg]

Yeah was it Elenor Neal because I Iove her

[@Emi_IsTired]

Yess same! I watched Eleanor Neale’s video, it’s devastating.

[@bbmorningstar]

They say you cannot remember pain but clearly you can. Knee injuries hurt I remember mine. I feel so very sorry for these three and everyone else involved in the incident. I hope they all have won hefty lawsuits and are able to somehow pick up the pieces to their lives ruined by the parks incompetent staff.

[@morganblakesley6338]

Kind of crazy to compare this to a knee injury? They was left up there bleeding out for 4+ hours while people watching the crash was filming, The ride theme tune was also a person laughing they must of been hearing the ride laughing at them while they literally thought they was going to die Nothing can be compared to what these people went through 🥺 Thoughts are with them I hope they are all ok

[@KitKaneki]

Imagine comparing a knee injury to being crushed on a roller coaster at 90mph...

[@peach6200]

yeah lets not compare knee injuries to going high speed on a rollercoaster and being crushed between 2 carts

[@DrAvery7]

ain’t no way you just compared a knee injury to a crash equivalent to a 1.2 ton truck coming at them at 90mph

[@Altontowersthorpepark]

@@morganblakesley6338it wasn’t up there it was on one of the lowest parts of the ride just above the underground ditch part

[@Manuvrfs]

You can’t imagine I can’t even say what it’s like not having a leg what happened that day that day the engineers just didn’t look for the cart was sad I’m not glad about them now they are never the same changed… all because of miscommunication

[@Alton.towers]

I am sending my heart out to all of you and just keep pushing through the pain you will get used to it when time comes 😊😊

[@CC-qx7hk]

Omg lmao. Glad they’re okay but man, that name

[@Alton.towers]

@@CC-qx7hk 😂😂lol I don’t think they are smiling

[@Alton.towers]

😂😂😂

[@CC_543]

Dude I went on the smiler 2 hours before It crashed

[@T0XINZ3R0]

@@CC_543 fr?

[@scp-09698]

Love that they’re all married now!!!

[@xKaitlinx]

To eachother?

[@50sRockChick]

⁠@@xKaitlinxJoe and Leah are either engaged or married to eachother. Vicky is married with a baby.

[@spidybat7658]

​@50sRockChick they are going to get married in 2024

[@cay820]

Kinda stuck with each other at this point 😅

[@iwonafetela5183]

​@@50sRockChickSHE GOT MARRIED TO A BABY?

[@CrazyManhog]

And now the smiler is the safest ride in the park

[@Altontowersthorpepark]

Yh

[@jorgenvonstrangle4725]

safe or not it should of been shut permanently following this accident due to the life changing injuries that it cause to the victims of this incident.

[@Altontowersthorpepark]

@@jorgenvonstrangle4725 bish we are talking about the future and how it is now not 9 years ago 🤚😭🤣

[@jorgenvonstrangle4725]

@@Altontowersthorpepark still should have been shut mate it could be 1000 years and I would still say that pure greed at it's finest

[@Altontowersthorpepark]

@@jorgenvonstrangle4725 GP ALERT 🚨 ‼️

[@ellieforrester2045]

I love this ride I went on it yesterday but this does really freak me out and upsets me !

[@dixnoTPT2]

I feel so bad 😢😢😢

[@chloepauwels4445]

I feel so bad for them😢❤😊

[@accountnotfound8392]

wow

[@WilliamThompson-cd2qt]

Bro these people have experience things no-one I mean NO-ONE wants to experience

[@askjeevescosby2928]

Think the best thing these people could do is get back on that ride. Show your brain that their is nothing to be affraid of. That a horrible accident like that will never happen on that ride again. After my horrible car accident i wanted to avoid going the route where it happened but instead i drove up and down that route 100 times right after the accident in my moms car. I knownit was nowhere near as bad as this but it was a 50mph head on collision and it was a nightmare.

[@hooper1605]

imagine they did and it happened again, cya other leg

[@askjeevescosby2928]

@hooper1605 after an accident like this I doubt that ride will ever valley in that area again. They probably have so many safeguards in place.

[@CC_543]

5:00

[@enki9006]

All theme parks that employ kids to operate the rides should shut permanently!

[@MaximusDecImuS3]

Ok calm down Alton towers has better training

[@Justachillgirl14]

Is this the smiler ride?

[@infiniteuniverse9503]

Yes

[@CaspianCraig]

Why does Leah have her leg back

[@Thebathroomsink123]

Its prosthetic

[@50sRockChick]

They were sat opposite sides of the ride, Vikki lost her right leg, Leah her left. She has a realistic prosthetic.

[@EmersynMay]

She doesnt

[@nataliecoakley7706]

She does have prosthetic leg

[@IG63367]

❤

[@Stachowiczlaura]

no but why is the smiler still open

[@happysword258]

They reworked the security system and retrained staff so smething like this cannot happen again

[@breathedarlingokay]

it was the error of the operators and miscommunication - ie human error. the ride is realtively safe, its just the combination of negligence of the staff. the staff didnt notify the mechanic that they added a 5th cart. the security system worked properly. the staff didnt communicate w the mechanic. so the mechanic counted the usual 4 carts, assuming that there were only 4, and overrided the security mechanism thinking it was just a censor error. so theyve really cracked down on safety protocols. the ride itself is engineered fine. but the staff needed to be trained and not negligent even on a busy day. a combination of bad circumstances and human error. hence after changing their protocols the ride is fine. just has a bad reputation now.

[@Tomwindram]

If a plane crashes do the plane makers stop making them? Do people stop flying on them? No they fix the problem and people continue to fly

[@1saamor897]

@@Tomwindramtru. stuff like this happens once in a lifetime. plane crashes happen. 9/11 happened. but fear of it stops u from doing stuff

[@rayna3244]

Exactly. Out of respect for these poor victims they should have at least renamed it and changed the aesthetic

[@TaxingIsThieving]

They don't feel bad to Alton Towers?!

[@dixnoTPT2]

Smiler no

[@TaxingIsThieving]

Bro looks like a wonky Elvis

[@taytaytaylor3822]

they dont look like they are smiling at all :(

[@timothywait9457]

taytaytaylor when the morphine kicked in they did

[@Britneyspears2412]

My dad said he’d do it for all the money they got

[@SleepExports]

Would he get all entitled and moan about it on This Morning?

[@ChristopherMichael-u3x]

Guys she made an absolute killing from this.. You could take my leg anyday for that kind of dough

[@MsFated]

Very insensitive comment and I’m sure they would prefer to have their legs back than have the money.

[@all-caps3927]

what a horrible comment to make about someone who's was part of a horrific accident

[@quinn799]

I don’t think you understand. Their legs were crushed to a few centimeters of space, and they were there upwards of FOUR HOURS.

[@beakerface]

She'll have to spend most of it on prosthetics and physio etc for the rest of her life

[@xx_igachavids7413]

id rather be in a huge debt than lose my leg that way

[@jimmyormerod4075]

Even tho they would like to see it never reopen at the end of the day the rollercoaster is fully functional and safe it was just lack of training of staff at the time on oversights in safty that I can say with full knowledge Alton towers and Merlin have taken on board completely there isn’t a safer country to go to a theme park then the Uk