THE family of a four-year-old girl who suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling off a wall at a popular holiday park is now taking their fight to court.
The young girl’s mother has launched a High Court claim for more than £1million against the park’s owners.
The mother has launched a claim against the owners of Perran Sands Holiday Park, Cornwall[/caption]
Her daughter suffered a traumatic fall at the park in 2019[/caption]
The claim is on behalf of her now nine-year-old daughter, Harper, who suffered a fall at Perran Sands Holiday park in Cornwall in October 2019.
It accuses Haven Leisure of negligence for failing to recognise the danger that the wall posed, reports CornwallLive.
The court papers reveal that Harper fell backwards off the wall, facing a metre and a half drop below.
They claim that nobody saw her climb up onto the wall, which was less than 50cm high on one side.
When she fell, she tragically landed on her head resulting in a fractured skull.
The young girl also suffered a brain haemorrhage and brain injury.
Haven Leisure is said to have claimed that her stepfather was the one to place her on the wall, but this has since been denied by the family.
Soon after the fall, she was taken to Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.
After her condition improved, Harper was discharged home.
But the papers allege that in the wake of the accident, she has undergone behavioural and cognitive changes.
Among other things, the papers claim these changes involve aggressive episodes and self-harming.
Her mother, Amanda Hurst from Bourton on the Water, has argued that Haven Leisure failed to carry out an adequate risk assessment and should have realised that a barrier 1.1m high was needed to keep visitors safe, the court documents reveal.
They also see Amanda accuse the company of failing to heed the risk of the wall’s height, and failing to heed the risks of a wall which was of sitting height but with a 1.86m drop behind it.
She claims Haven Leisure failed to have measures to discourage climbing the wall, noting that an earlier metal barrier had been removed.
Amanda claims that the fall has resulted in her daughter suffering behavioural and cognitive changes[/caption]
She has accused Haven Leisure of negligence in a new claim against the park[/caption]
The mother also alleges that there were no signs warning of the risk of falls.
The papers say that since the accident planters have been placed on top of the wall to discourage climbing.
They have also erected signs saying: “Please don’t climb on this wall.”
Amanda is now seeking provisional damages for her daughter and for the way to be left open for her to return to court for more compensation if her conditions grows in severity.
The Sun has reached out to Haven Leisure for comment.
She also claims that the park failed to install measures to discourage climbing on the wall[/caption]
