Inside UK's most horrific theme park disasters – deaths, decapitations and amputations

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theme parks across the country have been subjected to scenes of horrific crashes, causing injuries that have even led to death.Theme parks are supposed to be fun - wholesome places where all the family can have a laugh, see some cool sights and get the pulse racing a little.But this isn’t always the case - for on rare occasions, the big family day out has been the last one some people ever take.READ MORE: Theme park horror as gunman leaves three with bullet wounds in ‘targeted incident’Even more heartbreakingly, it’s often children who end up in harm’s way.Read on for some of the worst and most harrowing theme park ride disasters ever to take place in the UK.Hugh Dow, 56, was doing maintenance on a miniature train at the theme park in Milton Keynes, Bucks, when he was decapitated.After completing the work he stood up after giving the driver the all-clear to move the train on.While standing he hit his head on a bridge and suffered massive trauma to his skull and brain before being dragged through the 10-foot-long tunnel.

He died instantly, although his death was labelled as misadventure by an inquest.A spokeswoman for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), investigating the death, said: "He was decapitated.

There was probably two and a half to three inches between the top of the carriage and the tunnel."The park closed the next day.Gulliver’s Land has been approached for comment.An 11-year-old girl died after she fell from the Splash Canyon water ride near Leicester.Evha Jannath was on a school trip when she fell out of the raft and into the pool below.

Wading back she was dragged under by rapid water, the Sun reported.Eventually pulled out, she was confirmed dead shortly after she arrived at Birmingham Children’s.