Bouncy Castle company 'shocked' as boy swept up in air in 'freak' inflatable ball accident
dailyrecord.co.ukA bouncy castle company has been left "shocked" over the "terrible freak incident" where a nine-year-old was seriously injured in an inflatable zorb ball attraction.Liverpool Echo reports the young boy was injured when the inflatable was blown away by a gust of wind shortly before 2pm on Sunday June 4 during the Southport Food and Drink Festival in Victoria Park.
Bouncy Castle Parade said its "thoughts and prayers" are with the boy and they "wish him a rapid recovery". They are currently assisting with multi-agency investigations.North West Ambulance Service were called to the scene at 1.56pm.
The nine-year-old boy was airlifted to hospital with multiple serious injuries.Eyewitness Paul Holmes said: "We were just stood next to the zorb pit looking for something to eat.
There was a breeze quite quick and I just said 'oh that breeze is nice'."In my peripheral vision, I saw two of the zorb balls go up into the sky and I just screamed at the top of my voice 'there's a kid in one of those balls someone catch him.'"The main zorb of concern I would say was probably 15-20 metres in the sky easily.
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