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Fairground Slide Reopens After 8-Year-Old Girl Broke Her Ankle

Summary by Omroep Brabant
The Mega Slide fairground attraction reopened Thursday afternoon at the Tilburg Fair, after an eight-year-old girl was injured Wednesday evening. The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) investigated the fourteen-meter-high slide, resulting in the temporary closure of the attraction. A spokesperson for the NVWA announced Thursday afternoon that the attraction has been cleared to reopen. "We have conducted an investigatio…
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The Mega Slide fairground attraction reopened Thursday afternoon at the Tilburg Fair, after an eight-year-old girl was injured Wednesday evening. The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) investigated the fourteen-meter-high slide, resulting in the temporary closure of the attraction. A spokesperson for the NVWA announced Thursday afternoon that the attraction has been cleared to reopen. "We have conducted an investigatio…

TILBURG - An 8-year-old girl from Belgium was injured Wednesday evening on the Mega Slide at the Tilburg Fair. She broke her ankle while using the attraction, which is located at the intersection of Paleisring and Koningsplein. The incident happened around 11:15 p.m. Exactly how it happened is unknown...

The girl, from Belgium, was going down the slide around 10:15 a.m. on Wednesday evening when it went wrong, Omroep Brabant reports. How exactly this happened is still unclear. Emergency services responded en masse to the incident and immediately closed the attraction. The accident attracted a large number of fairgoers. After the incident at the fair, the attraction was closed, and the NVWA (Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority)…

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omroeptilburg.nl broke the news in on Thursday, July 24, 2025.
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