FAIRGROUND workers are considering putting weight restrictions on rides after a teenager got stuck on one at Beaconsfield Charter Fair.

A 15-year-old ended up trapped along with ten others at about 7.30pm last Thursday when the safety bar could not be lifted on the Miami Surfer ride.

A spokesman for T Smith, which runs the fair at Beaconsfield, said: "We have not had any problems before and have even turned people away for being too big.

"Now if people are oversized we will not let them get on whether they get upset or not. We are not going to let overweight people on, whether they like it or not."

She said that fire engines, police and an ambulance arrived and when firefighters could not cut the bar to free them, a fairworker unbolted the bar.

The teenager was freed and taken to Wycombe Hospital by ambulance but he escaped serious injury and left immediately with slight bruising.

The Health and Safety Executive is now looking in to the 30 minute incident at the fair in Aylesbury End, Beaconsfield Old Town.

However a family member at T Smith's said that she believed 'a big deal had been made out of nothing' after a passer-by called the emergency services and claimed that 11 people were trapped on a collapsed ride.

She added: "No one was hurt. He was just a bit overweight, that's all. Even when the firefighters did turn up they couldn't cut the bar and my brother had to unbolt it.

"It wasn't a major problem. It just got blown out of proportion but the boy got out fine and had no injuries."