Two accidents on Ocean Park's newly opened artificial snow-slide at the weekend left two toddlers with broken bones, it emerged yesterday.
The separate incidents happened on Sunday when the children, aged two and three, were sledging on the Winter Sled and Slide, the park's Christmas attraction. Both were taken to Tang Siu Kin Hospital with fractured legs and discharged after treatment.
Ocean Park spokeswoman Vivian Lee yesterday insisted that the slide, which opened on December 6, met safety standards and that the two incidents were isolated. 'Nothing will have to be changed, but we will monitor more closely the slide's operation,' she said.
The events came to light after the mother of the three-year-old girl voiced complaints on Commercial Radio's phone-in programme Teacup In A Storm yesterday morning.
May Chan Sin said her daughter, Sin Ho-yee, was now bed-ridden with a fractured ankle and would need eight weeks to recover fully.
Mrs Sin said Ho-yee, who was accompanied by her teenage cousin, was injured on her third ride on the 46-metre-long, artificial grass slide.
'She kept crying at the finishing point and I didn't know what had happened as she didn't have any external injuries. It wasn't until she was taken to hospital for a check-up that I realised how serious things were,' she said.