Since the park opened at the start of the year dozens of parents have reported broken bones, facial fractures and burns.
A petition has been started to remove a slippery dip at a playground on the New South Wales South Coast, where at least one family is pursuing legal action after more reports of serious injuries.Signs erected at the park say the slide is designed to "challenge" children "physically and mentally"
On Monday Mitchell Liddicoat launched a petition urging Shoalhaven City Council to get rid of the slide after his three-year-old daughter, Harlow, broke her leg when they slid down in tandem."There's quite a large kink in the middle of the slide, so we went up one wall and it pretty much catapulted us into the other wall.Dozens of parents say their kids have been seriously injured on the Boongaree Nature Play Park slide.
A sign at the bottom of the giant slide warns parents not to assist their children to use the equipment.James Govan from Wollongong's Acorn Lawyers in Wollongong says under the state's 2002 Civil Liability Act the council has little legal culpability if warning signs are erected. "If an appropriate risk warning is given the defendant has, at least potentially, a complete defence to any claim.
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