{"id":2300,"date":"2017-11-19T01:04:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T01:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2017-11-19T01:04:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T01:04:49","slug":"death-in-rotating-restaurant-parents-sue-after-boys-skull-crushed-in-atlanta-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/death-in-rotating-restaurant-parents-sue-after-boys-skull-crushed-in-atlanta-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Death in rotating restaurant: Parents sue after boy&#8217;s skull crushed in Atlanta hotel\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"published\">Updated\u00a0<span class=\"timestamp\"><span class=\"noprint\">yesterday at 12:47pm<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-content photo full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-11-18\/restaurant-death_thom.jpg\/9164804\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"The dining area at the Sun Dial restaurant atop the Westin Hotel in Atlanta.\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/920\/files\/2017\/11\/9164798-3x2-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"The family of a 5-year-old boy whose skull was crushed in the rotating wall of the hotel restaurant has sued the\u00a0Atlanta\u00a0hotel.\" width=\"387\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-content photo full\"><a class=\"inline-caption\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-11-18\/restaurant-death_thom.jpg\/9164804\"><strong>PHOTO:<\/strong>\u00a0The family of a 5-year-old boy who was killed in the rotating restaurant has sued the Atlanta hotel.\u00a0<span class=\"source\">(AP: Kent D. Johnson\/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"attached-content ready\">\n<div class=\"inline-content map left contracted\"><a class=\"inline-caption\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/United%20States\/@38,-97,5z\"><strong>MAP:\u00a0<\/strong>United States<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"first\">The family of a five-year-old boy whose skull was crushed in the rotating wall of a hotel restaurant has sued the Atlanta hotel, accusing it of negligence in his death.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-content wysiwyg right\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h2>Key points:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Police said the boy got his head stuck between tables<\/li>\n<li>They said the rotating floor shut off automatically when he was stuck<\/li>\n<li>Lawsuit disagrees with police statements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Attorney Joseph Fried filed suit for Rebecca and Michael Holt of Charlotte, North Carolina, whose son Charlie died on April 14.<\/p>\n<p>Marriott International, the owner of the Westin Peachtree Plaza hotel, did not immediately respond to an email and phone call requesting comment.<\/p>\n<p>Police had said the boy wandered away from his family&#8217;s window table at the restaurant and got his head stuck between tables.<\/p>\n<p>They also said the rotating floor shut off automatically when he was stuck.<\/p>\n<p>But the lawsuit disagreed with police statements.<\/p>\n<p>It said the family left along a path that various members had used without problems to go to and from the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>But this time, it said, a booth rotating near a stationary wall blocked their path.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-content photo full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-11-18\/the-sun-dial-restuarant\/9165052\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"The Sun Dial Restaurant\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/920\/files\/2017\/11\/9165048-3x2-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"The Sun Dial Restuarant\" width=\"449\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><a class=\"inline-caption\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-11-18\/the-sun-dial-restuarant\/9165052\"><strong>PHOTO:<\/strong>\u00a0The Sun Dial Restaurant atop the Westin Peachtree Plaza hotel in Atlanta.\u00a0<span class=\"source\">(Facebook: Sun Dial Restaurant, Bar &amp; View)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Charlie, a few steps ahead of his parents, &#8220;was too short to see past the booth and did not appreciate the danger until it was too late,&#8221; and was trapped in the &#8220;pinch point&#8221; between booth and wall, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To Michael&#8217;s and Rebecca&#8217;s horror, the rotation did not automatically stop when Charlie got trapped,&#8221; the lawsuit states, and there was no emergency button to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel reopened the restaurant in June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After Charlie&#8217;s death, Marriott has said that it won&#8217;t allow the restaurant to revolve again until it has addressed the dangerous pinch points,&#8221; Mr Fried&#8217;s statement said<\/p>\n<p>The family of a five-year-old boy who was killed in a rotating restaurant sues the Atlanta hotel, accusing it of negligence in his death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-11-18\/atlanta-revolving-restaurant-death\/9164808\">Death in rotating restaurant: Parents sue after boy&#8217;s skull crushed in Atlanta hotel &#8211; ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated\u00a0yesterday at 12:47pm PHOTO:\u00a0The family of a 5-year-old boy who was killed in the rotating restaurant has sued the Atlanta hotel.\u00a0(AP: Kent D. 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