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Whilst the fifth train was being added ... ride quickly because of bonuses' Horrific new footage of doomed Alton Towers Smiler ride shows sequence of mistakes leading to 'life-changing' crash ...
Twenty-five hero Staffordshire firefighters were honoured for rescuing the injured thrill-seekers. The worst affected were ...
The Smiler ride at Alton Towers Resort in Staffordshire ... ‘Members of the public have been exposed to serious risk of one train colliding with another with a computer control system was ...
Visitors were removed from the Alton Towers Smiler ride after a warning light indicated a fault. Staff sent a test train around the track, but it didn't make it around. Due to a breakdown in ...
Alton Towers’ owners, Merlin, admitted being at fault and a £5 million fine was imposed by the courts after the incident on The Smiler ride ... Whilst the fifth train was being added, staff ...
Soon after he boarded his favourite Alton Towers rollercoaster ... another empty train now blocked their way. In the short time it took to reach it, the people on board The Smiler were all ...
Five seconds after the Alton Towers crash Our insider ... have easily spotted the stuck empty train because there are 15 CCTV cameras focused on the Smiler as well as proximity sensors on ...
That's the end of our liveblog on the reopening of Alton Towers, six days after The Smiler crash ... flow of customers coming off the monorail train, which brings people in from the site's ...
Alton Towers visitors are currently stuck in mid air after The Smiler rollercoaster froze this afternoon. A train, carrying visitors, came to a halt part way around the ride shortly before 11am ...
Leah Washington-Pugh and Joe Pugh both suffered life-changing injuries after the Smiler rollercoaster at Alton Towers crashed ...
The 25-year-old from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, was 17 years old when the Smiler rollercoaster carriage smashed into a stationary train at Alton Towers, in Staffordshire, in June 2015. Leah was ...
Before fining Alton Towers' operator £5million for the Smiler crash, a judge described ... Whilst the fifth train was being added, staff sent an empty carriage around the track to check that ...