The trial resulting from a wagon accident at El Capitan Ranch is scheduled to begin Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, at Santa Barbara Superior Court. Joseph Aragon and Ellen Aragon vs. El Capitan Ranch, LLC, Robert Carriages and Sons AKA Les Voitures Robert et Fils, Carriages by Margaret, Devon Bonfy, and DOES 1 through 50, Inclusive (Case #: 1220826) alleges negligence, product liability and premises liability. Ten people were injured when a horse-drawn wagon tipped over and dumped
18 passengers onto the pavement at El Capitan Canyon campground in Santa Barbara. Joseph Aragon suffered severe injuries to both shoulders and has had five shoulder surgeries since then. The plaintiff's engineering expert described the wagon as
improperly made with spokes connected to the wheels using
undersized bolts, wood spokes that were not adequately weather-proofed, and the angle of the spokes to the wheel was improper which added to the wheels' instability. Cloudcomputing.com also reports:
"It's
frightening that, to the best of our knowledge, Robert Carriages and
Sons doesn't even have an engineer involved in the making of its
wagons," says plaintiff attorney Wolf. "And this isn't the first accident that has been
reported to the company regarding its wagons. We understand a similar
situation happened to an Illinois man in the fall of 2003."
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