On Friday visited Mona and her two children Gröna Lund – in order to help her children overcome the fear that arose after the serious accident in the roller coaster Jetline, reports The Express.
– My children were scared and I tried to get them to get rid of that fear, that’s why we went. I wanted to show that accidents don’t always happen, she tells the newspaper.
The children rode the attraction Insane, where you swing around in a “gondola” with your legs hanging freely.
Fell and hit my head
When they were on their way into the station, the unexpected happened: On the platform stood an employee who didn’t have time to move away and was hit by the gondola.
– My children were in the carousel that hit her and caused her to fall. They sat in the ride itself and had to hang around for ten minutes, says Mona.
The staff told that the employee had fallen down and hit his head – something that Mona discovered she had caught on film when she got home, Expressen writes.
– I saw the detail in the video when I got home and thought “but God, how did she do?”, she says.
Would pick up a cell phone
Gröna Lund tells Expressen that the employee was on the platform to pick up a mobile phone that a visitor had dropped. She had received the “ok” from the driving staff to enter the area – but missed that one of the gondolas was entering the station.
The female employee suffered a slight concussion and pain in the body. According to Gröna Lund, she feels fine today, says Max LagerbäckActing Head of Information at Gröna Lund to the newspaper.
According to him, however, it was not the gondola itself that hit her and the video shows how she gets part of the belt in her head – and is then hit by the leg of the passenger.
According to the amusement park, she must have received the concussion when she fell into a wall in connection with the accident.
The park has made a report about a workplace accident. The police have also started a preliminary investigation into work environment violations, Expressen writes.