The moment funfair ride comes off the track with children on board

Families were left shocked after a carnival ride suddenly crashed at an Edinburgh fair.

A dad-of-three said his kids are ‘very lucky’ to have walked out of the Waltzers funfair ride after it appeared to malfunction at the Galactic Carnival Festival in Wester Hailes,Edinburgh,last night.

Kevin McNulty said he was on the ride with his three children and partner when the ‘unthinkable happened.’

The car came ‘completely off’ when the ride was going at ‘full pelt’ as the kids were enjoying the day out in one car and Kevin and his partner rode in another behind them.

The Waltzers ride cars suddenly flew off the tracks (Picture: Facebook/Kevin McNulty)

On footage captured by the dad-of-three,fairgoers can be first heard laughing and whooping in excitement as the ride spins around.

However,the sounds turn into terrified screams when some of the cars crash off the spinning platform and onto the side.

A panicked child can be heard yelling ‘oh my God,oh my God,’ with crying in the background.

Kevin wrote on social media how the ‘car came completely off and then went flying into our car and then smashed about the place crashing into the side off the track.’

He said hurtling cars were ‘thankfully’ blocked by heavy large speaker ‘that they collided with or they would have been through the whole thing and then the ending would have been a completely different story.’

Kevin said he ‘can’t stop thinking about’ what could have happened if the equipment had not been there.

Some of the nuts and bolts that allegedly fell off the ride after the incident (Picture: Kevin McNulty/PA Wire)

Pictures he took appear to show nuts and bolts on the floor near the ride in the immediate aftermath of the accident.

Kevin claimed that when a male manager arrived,he told the workers to ‘get the bolts off the ground before they get pictures,’ accusing him of not giving ‘a single care’ about his children.

He said his children are ‘very lucky that they managed to get out of this still walking.’

Other rides then continued,but the Waltzers was stopped,he said.

However,he said he thinks the fair ‘should have been shut down for a full inspection.’

Hundreds of people commented after Kevin shared the experience on social media.

One person said: ‘Horrendous and could have so easily been a different outcome! Shocking.’

Another said: ‘Thats horrendous hope they are all ok.’

We approached Galactic Carnival Edinburgh for a comment.