Who else is there to take the blame?
The park is solely responsible for what happens on their park...isn't it?
If the park allows the ride to head up the lift hill without checking restraints...
Seems pretty clear cut to me.
I misspoke - it is entirely their fault, but where has this info about the park not doing restraint checks come from and why?
It's a weird and unnecessary leap - guests don't leave their bars raised... They just don't. The main argument for checking lapbars is to make sure guests are in them correctly, not to check they're down. Guests don't just sit there and leave a bar raised as they ascend. Even the dumbest of them.
And even without a restraint, I really doubt you would get ejected from this in an immediate stop, like I explained before. You'd *tumble*. You'd jerk forwards or sideways and be slowed by the car, tumble forwards and loose grip and balance. Possibly hit your head, possibly get lucky and grab something and pull yourself free from the moving train.
I don't have experience trying to get out of Schwarzkopf lapbars lol but I bet I could it I felt it necessary, especially if there was no one beside me.
My point is, there is a chance the lapbars failed from vibrations, damage to the train, etc. There's even a chance they were up, but it's small... so to jump to that they were up and unchecked is weird. From all available evidence, no one was ejected.
You're oddly set on what happened and not thinking about it from a logical standpoint at all. It's not impossible, nothing is, but I dunno why you'd jump to the least likley scenario.
Maybe I've missed something, but where does the whole unchecked bars thing come from?