A serious accident at Cardiff's Winter Wonderland has sparked a new inspection regime of fairground rides in the UK. In November 2022 two people were hospitalised after they reportedly "came off" a ride at the attraction.
According to eyewitnesses at the time a number of people fell from the Ice Skater ride after a "massive bang" was heard. A spokesman from the Welsh Ambulance Service confirmed that two patients were taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
Britain’s workplace regulator the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigated the accident and will now carry out hundreds of inspections on rides this summer. It follows a string of similar incidents in London, Barrow, Hull, and Barnsley as well as a fatal incident in 2016.
