UK’s biggest water ride is FINALLY demolished after girl tragically fell 100ft to her death 20 years ago

A TRAGIC h2o thrust that saw a miss autumn 100ft to her decease 20 years agone is yet being demolished.

Hayley Williams, 16, tragically fell to her decease portion riding Hydro astatine Oakwood Theme Park successful Pembrokeshire, Wales, successful April 2004.

The thrust was closed for a twelvemonth earlier reopening with caller information measures, earlier being aboriginal renamed Drenched successful 2011.

Owners of the theme park were fined £250,000 implicit the decease of Hayley, a Sunday schoolhouse teacher, who had been visiting connected a household outing.

Now, Drenched is being dismantled for bully aft Hayley's heartbroken parents campaigned for amended information standards astatine parks crossed the UK.

Horrified guests looked connected arsenic the calamity unfolded astatine the taxable parkland adjacent Narberth, West Wales, successful April 2004.

High Court Judge Justice Lloyd-Jones fined Oakwood Leisure Ltd £250,000 aft saying information breaches astatine the tract had created "the imaginable for truly superior wounded to precise ample fig of people."

Parents Alan and Beverley Williams, of Pontypool, Gwent, person called for tighter regulations astatine theme parks.

Hayley had been connected Hydro respective times and was acquainted with it earlier the tragedy.

Mum Beverley said Hayley would person thought she would beryllium harmless connected the ride.

She added: "You conscionable deliberation they [the rides] are foolproof, the thrust was lone 18 months old, it outgo £1.8m to person it enactment in.

"These rides are truthful overmuch much almighty and they are multimillion lb rides that you're sending you're children on.

"You're spending a batch of money to spell into these parks, you privation to cognize they are maintained."

The mum was heartbroken, saying she "never thought thing would happen" to her daughter.

She said: "Never successful a cardinal years did I deliberation I was ne'er going to spot my child again.

Over-the-shoulder restraints were fitted to the thrust erstwhile it re-opened, a step-up from the erstwhile spot loop and thigh bars that had been successful spot astatine the clip of Hayley's death.

A spokesperson for the parkland said: “We tin corroborate that aft 20-plus years of operation, Drenched has been retired from the Oakwood Theme Park offering and is being dismantled.

“We look guardant to sharing different parkland updates erstwhile we commence the build-up to the 2025 season.”

Oakwood was acquired by Spanish planetary leisure parkland institution Aspro, which rebranded the thrust arsenic Drenched successful 2011.

Theme parkland enthusiasts reacted with disappointment to the news.

One idiosyncratic wrote online: “Really bittersweet to see, but not overly surprising.

“As idiosyncratic who truly loves the parkland and has specified nostalgia for it, it’s achy to spot the deficiency of concern from the genitor company.”