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Ruling over bumper-car injury supports amusement park

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A California doctor went to court after her amusement park bumper car was involved in a head-on collision with another car.  The California Supreme Court recently dismissed the case, finding that “a small degree of risk inevitably accompanies the thrill of speeding through curves and loops, defying gravity or, in bumper cars, engaging in the mock violence of low-speed collisions, and those who voluntarily join in these activities also voluntarily take on their minor inherent risks.”


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