A community is calling for the removal of a “potentially fatal” slide that has caused more than 40 injuries to young children.
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Taylah Hall said she had been wary of the slide, but said “since reading reports that the slide had been fixed and that council now deemed it safe, we trusted that.” “I know for a fact that if my husband wasn’t on there with her, her injuries would have been a million times worse, if not fatal,” she wrote in the Change.org petition.Father Mitch Liddicoat said he went down the slide with his young daughter and the two were “thrown around like a tumble dryer.”“It could get to the point where a child goes down in the wrong spot and they don’t get to go home with their family at all,” he told NCA Newswire.
The south coast playground made headlines in April when a 4-year-old girl broke both of her legs when she was going down the slide. When her mother reached out to the community, she found more than 30 parents with children who had been injured at Boongaree. A Kidsafe NSW spokesperson said the results of the assessment were directly sent to the council and have not publicly been released. Mr. Liddicoat said he believed the playground had been given the all-clear.The petition to remove or modify the slide at the Berry playground had drummed up more than 120 signatures in the four days it’s been viable.
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