A lawsuit has been filed against the Michigan DNR and the city of Detroit after two minors say they were seriously injured while going down the Giant Slide on Belle Isle.
The lawsuit was filed in Wayne County by a mother who says her two children were injured after going down the slide on August 19th, 2022. The Giant Slide at Belle Isle is a steel slide with a height of 40 feet and 6 lanes.
According to the lawsuit, Braylen and Rylee proceeded down the slide as their mother watched them go airborne and striking their heads multiple times on the steel slide.
The lawsuit alleges the operators negligently, carelessly and recklessly allowing customers to play on the Giant Slide, knowing it was unsafe.
” They knew that the Giant Slide was unsafe….the Giant Slide did not contain any warnings that risk of serious injury could arise from riding down the Giant Slide… there were no instructions on the Giant Side, stating the proper way to slide down,” the lawsuit reads.
As a result, the lawsuit alleges the two kids suffered:
Chronic headaches; traumatic brain injury; concussions, Physical pain and suffering and discomfort; past, present and future; embarrassment, humiliation, and mortification; medical bills and expenses, and more.
The city of Detroit says they will be asking to have their name removed from the lawsuit because the State of Michigan operates Belle Isle.
“The law department is going to seek to have the city removed from this lawsuit because the city does not operate Belle Isle and it does not own or operate the Giant Slide,” John Roach, a city spokesman, told MDN.
