A woman, admitted to the ICU after an accident with a bouncy castle in Malaga

A woman is admitted to the ICU of the Regional Hospital of Malaga after suffering a fall when she was hit by a bouncy castle that moved a few meters due to a gust of wind during an activity organized for the San Juan fair in the town of Malaga of Humilladero.

The accident occurred this Thursday afternoon at the municipality's soccer field, where a municipal subcontractor had installed five bouncy castles in an event aimed at children, as reported to EFE by the mayor of Humilladero, Miguel Ángel Pérez.

At a certain moment, one of the castles, “the heaviest and full of water”, was lifted by “a whirlwind” and moved, in such a way that it pushed a woman, who “fell backwards” and hit on the head, according to the alderman.

None of the children who were on the soccer field at that time suffered injuries as a result of the accident, stressed the mayor, who pointed out that there were more than 100 people in the area at that time.

The impact of the castle “surprised” on a day “when there was neither wind nor was it expected” and bent a metal pole that holds one of the protection nets to stop the balls from the field.

The mayor explained that at the time of the accident, a sports instructor, who is a City Council worker, was at the scene, although the event was organized by a subcontractor who is also in charge of other cultural activities during these festivities and who has his mandatory sure.

For his part, Rafael Serrano, the husband of the injured woman, has reported that after the accident she was “stunned, although conscious” and was taken by ambulance to the Antequera Regional Hospital, where they did a CT scan and decided to evacuate her to the Regional Hospital of Malaga, which has a Neurosurgery unit.

The woman suffered a head injury with internal bleeding and is awaiting new tests in the ICU of the Regional Hospital, according to Serrano, who intends to file a complaint “so that note is taken once and for all of these negligence.”

With this, he hopes that these events “do not happen again”, since he believes that if the castle had hit one of his children, aged 9 and 6, the impact would have been “lethal”..