More Amusement Park Safety in the News

The girl whose feet were severed on a ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom traveled to Washington yesterday to advocate, with her parents, for Rep. Markey’s bill adding fixed site amusement parks to the CPSC’s jurisdiction.

The longer the family’s litigation against Six Flags continues, the more I think it really is at least in part about information gathering and distribution.  The money will almost certainly be there whether they settle now or later (or even if they go to trial, if the facts as they seem to be are accurate), and they’re better able to get press in this setting.

–BC