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And as if Great Adventure hasn’t had a bad enough year already, Harley Quinn Crazy Train partially derailed on Saturday, causing some damage to the station platform.
I think important detail there is that they did attribute 35% of the blame to the family too, so the net award was 'only' $5.3m. Sounds like a pretty horrendous accident nonetheless!A family was awarded an $8.15 million verdict in a lawsuit against Busch Gardens Tampa after their child sustained injuries at the theme park. In September 2022, the child was injured at a Howl-O-Scream event after the amusement park left the doors to the Stanleyville Theater doors unlocked and unattended. The child went inside, onto the stage and the acrobatic trampoline where he fell off and suffered blunt force trauma that lacerated his chin, liver, and right kidney, which resulted in the loss of his kidney function. Source
My question here is; how exactly do they divide blame for an incident like this in such discrete percentage terms?I think important detail there is that they did attribute 35% of the blame to the family too, so the net award was 'only' $5.3m. Sounds like a pretty horrendous accident nonetheless!
The real world isn't that exact. The judge will have been through the thought process - I reckon about a third of the blame lies with the family (presumably not supervising the kid, in short) and two thirds lies with the park (having unsecured high risk areas). Well 33.3% is a pain in the butt, 35% is close enough. It's a judgement call (no pun intended) based on experience, precedent and possibly some legal/regulatory guidance.I love stats as much as the next person, but I’m struggling to see how you could quantify a percentage blame to the family and a percentage to the park, as these things are not exactly quantitative.