The accident with a carousel in Venray in which eight people were slightly injured on Monday, is not the fault of fair operator Willy Seggers from Assen. Together with Johannes Bosma from Groningen, he owns the attraction, which was in the news because seats – containing occupants – hit a tree.
So Seggers is not to blame. “The attraction was fine, the municipality had made a mistake. We have not done anything wrong.” He finds the suspicion that fairground visitors loosened the tensioning straps. “When you’re on a roller coaster, you don’t put your arm out of the cart either.”
The mayor of Venray, Leontien Kompier, found the accident a ‘damper on an otherwise very festive fair edition’. “Fortunately, there were no serious injuries, but the shock was considerable. That is why I have a good reason to look closely at the safety aspect of this measure in the future.”
The fairground attraction in Venray will no longer open after the incident.