Media Coverage of Alton Towers

[IanSR]

That show last night wasn't bad, stuck to the facts, even if they did dramatise the girls prospective payout every 30 seconds. She actually complimented the AT first aider in the way she handled it instead of throwing them under the buss.

I must admit those two that were the subject of the show (Leah and Joe?) seem a lot more humble and dare I say it, human than it appeared, Leah has a bionic leg too, but you wouldn't know that to look at her, unlike the other girl involved, wonder why she wasn't included?

 

[Steve74]

What show was that?

 

[RoyJess]

Chanel 5 Where There's A Blame There's A Claim

You can watch catch up here

http://www.channel5.com/show/where-theres-blame-theres-a-claim/

Also looks like it will be repeated on My5 on Monday 11pm

 

[delta79]

The show actually gave a nice clean straight forward telling of the incident.

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[Towerslover]

So am I correct in saying Leah, Joe and the others have yet to recieve compensation?

 

[RoyJess]

So am I correct in saying Leah, Joe and the others have yet to recieve compensation?

Yep,

If you ever dealt with solicitors before, you know that they seem to have all the time in the world to milk as much out as possible (the more time it takes, the more money the solicitors make )

 

[IanSR]

Joe has accepted a payout, Leah is ongoing, the other two are unknown.

 

[Tibble]

Although it shouldn't be needed I think the way AT is going about explaining the medias stories and what has happened is a really good idea - When people go on AT pages after reading it the response is there.

 

[IanSR]

Their next video should be to explain what a code zero is on the Smiler so that the poor rookie batcher doesn't have to try and explain it to the hundreds of people in the queue all asking "what's a code zero?" over and over lol

 

[delta79]

What is a code zero on the smiler?

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[nickhutson]

I thought this was very interesting and offered a clear explanation of what happened. Well done to all the emergency services!

 

[IanSR]

What is a code zero on the smiler?

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If you're seriously asking it's to tell all the other staff members the ride is under manual control, in the case Sunday it was to release the train from the second lift hill and return it to the station. The train in front of it had stopped short of the station and some engineers went out to push it in before they bought the second one back.

 

[DiogoJ42]

I can see why they wouldn't want the public to hear " Oi, Garry, I've got it in manual! What does this button do?" belted out over the PA.

 

[Skyscraper]

Just watched the program on catch-up, and i was very impressed and happy that they got the facts spot on!
the program was very interesting overall, as well.

 

[delta79]

I am waiting for the oblivion stories to appear.

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[Rick]

Smiler victims are on Victoria Derbyshire show this morning. The caption called them 'survivors' which I think is a little odd because it implies that someone didn't survive.

 

[IanSR]

Did they say anything of interest?

 

[Rick]

Not sure @IanSR - the sound was off

 

[IanSR]

You sure you just wasn't mentally blocking them out @Rick ?

 

[delta79]

I have just watch the section on Victoria Derbyshire. It was about trauma research, and the lack of funding into it.
For someone like myself it was a very interesting.