Alton Towers amputee Leah Washington, 22, returns to resort for girls weekend after losing leg in Smiler ride crash
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"A brief little journey from then until now, a 17-year-old girl thinking what was going to happen next after surgery."I'm feeling continued improvements in my fitness and the use of my prosthetic with support from my friends, family & followers."' She told OK: "'If you'd told either of us during the weeks that followed our horrific accident at Alton Towers we'd be planning our wedding now, I don't think we'd have believed it."ON June 2, 2015 revellers were removed from the Smiler ride at Alton Towers after a warning light flashed up.
Staff sent a test train around the track - and left it sitting there after a breakdown in communication.Engineers overrode the fault and the carriage hurtled into the stationary car with the force of a 90mph car crash.The trapped visitors had to wait more than four hours for rescue workers to reach them.Leah Washington from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and Vicky Balch from Leyland, Lancashire, both had legs amputated.
Joe Pugh, also from Barnsley, and Daniel Thorpe, 28, from Buxton, Derbyshire, also suffered serious leg injuries, along with 49-year-old Chandaben Chauhan.
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