Stopped for 5 minutes due to strong winds… Separation of passenger car emergency doors
Impact of Typhoon ‘Henk’… Damage throughout the UK
An accident occurred where the London Eye, a landmark large Ferris wheel in London, England, came to a halt for five minutes due to strong winds. A dizzying situation occurred when the door of the compartment in which 11 members of a family were riding fell off.
BBC, Guardian, etc. reported on the 3rd (local time) that the London Eye stopped for five minutes due to storm ‘Henk’ and the emergency door of the observation car at the top fell off. There were 11 family members aboard the compartment. The height of the summit of the London Eye reaches 135m.
“I knew a storm was coming, but I wasn’t too worried because the wind wasn’t that strong,” said rider David Nock.
He said that when the Ferris wheel was lowered again, the emergency door, which was barely attached to the carriage, caught on another structure and began to crush, and the entire Ferris wheel seemed to sway. Nok immediately pressed the emergency button and notified staff of the situation.
Nok, an information technology (IT) businessman from Australia, experienced something like this while visiting the London Eye with 10 family members visiting from his home country. They revealed that they were even more fearful of the fear that other people could be injured if the vehicle fell from a height of more than 130 meters.
London Eye officials apologized for this accident and said that no structures separated or any casualties occurred. It was reported that the London Eye suspended operations immediately after the incident and reopened that evening after a thorough safety inspection.
On this day, Henk struck the entire UK, and strong winds of up to 112 km/h blew in London. More than 700 flood warnings were issued in England and Wales, and a man in his 50s died after being hit by a falling tree in the southern Bath area.
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