Wearing Water Shoes on Water Slides May Result in Catastrophic Consequences
A gentleman just presented to my office after sustaining a most catastrophic and life altering permanent injury that resulted from wearing water shoes on a water slide at a nationally renowned water park.
As an experienced water slide accident attorney, I have had a chance to investigate several accidents caused by a rider wearing water shoes on a water slide.
Imagine this scenario, you are traveling down a water slide at a high rate of speed and your body has been thrown about and all of a sudden, the rubber non-slip surface of your foot jams abruptly on the side of a water slide causing your bone to come protruding through your skin as you abruptly slow down and come to a halting stop. This is exactly what happened to one of our clients and a collective survey of many national and local water parks revealed that many parks still allow water shoes to be worn on water slides, and in fact sell them despite knowledge of this foreseeable risk.
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