Family files suit in death of child at Atlanta's Peachtree

that's a hell of a story to completely ruin a Monday morning. what a brutal read.

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were they negligent before

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Not sure what all of the life safety requirements are for revolving buildings but either something wasn't done to code or the code needs a rewrite.

Kid was just a few steps in front of his parents. Damn.

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Police had said the boy wandered away from his family’s window table at the restaurant atop the Westin Peachtree Plaza hotel and got his head stuck between tables. They also said the rotating floor shut off automatically when he was struck.

The lawsuit disagrees with police statements.

It said the family left along a path that various members had used without problems to go to and from the bathroom. But this time, it said, a booth rotating near a stationary wall blocked their path.

Charlie, a few steps ahead of his parents, “was too short to see past the booth and did not appreciate the danger until it was too late,” and was trapped in the “pinch point” between booth and wall, according to the lawsuit.

“To Michael’s and Rebecca’s horror, the rotation did not automatically stop when Charlie got trapped,” the lawsuit states, and there was no emergency button to stop it.

Rebecca Holt tried to pull her son free and Michael Holt “threw his body against the booth,” but both actions were futile, it said.

It said Michael Holt heard his son’s skull crack before someone finally stopped the rotation.

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Shouldn't this be easy to prove?

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Marriott has said that it won’t allow the restaurant to revolve again until it has addressed the dangerous pinch points,” Fried’s statement said. “Marriott should not have waited for this tragedy before acting to correct this hazard, especially while it held itself out as a safe place for kids.”

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Sure sounds like Marriot will settle if they are acknowledging the danger.

I don't care if the kid was "running wild" or not, there shouldn't be any possibility that the kid could be killed by the building rotating. Definitely a flawed design.

Two points to remember:

1. The plaintiffs filings are always filled with allegations that barely stick to the truth in an effort to paint the defendant in the worst light. Someone bumps another car in stop and go traffic? They willfully and with malice and determined negligence rammed the defendants vehicle causing permanent physical injuries that will disable the defendant for years to come.

2. I hate that any efforts by the defendant to fix some odd and unforeseen danger after an accident is used to “prove” their fault. Accident happened? The lawyers would rather risk it happening again than to take steps to mitigate during the life of the lawsuit.

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I hope the hotel doesn't settle. They should have been watching the kid.

Also who the frick let's a kid run wild like that in public

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They will, as they should, because they were liable, they have clearly admitted so by discontinuing the rotation of the reststaurant to address pinch points. If they do not, it will cost them more in lawyers fees and the eventual jury settlement from a jury probably filled with people who have kids in their life that remind them of the dead 5 year old.

Not everyone has flawlessly behaved 5 year old children like you apparently do.

How many hundreds of thousands of people have eaten in revolving restaurants built the same way with no accidents?

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I hope the hotel doesn't settle. They should have been watching the kid.

Also who the frick let's a kid run wild like that in public

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These people lost a child. You sir, can kindly frick yourself.