Girl’s leg broken during cheese-rolling festival in Whistler, B.C.: lawsuit
VANCOUVER — A cheese-rolling competition in Whistler, B.C., went from fun to frightening when a runaway wheel of cheddar crashed into a three-year-old girl and broke her leg, a lawsuit alleges.
The notice of civil claim says Juli Nonaka was watching the Canadian Cheese Rolling Festival on Blackcomb Mountain in August when the five-kilogram wheel came flying down the hill and stretched a safety net, colliding with her.
Toshihiro Nonaka filed the lawsuit in British Columbia Supreme Court on his daughter’s behalf. He said in an interview that he wasn’t with his daughter at the festival, but his wife was.
“The cheese was very fast and it came down to my daughter,” Nonaka said Wednesday. “She just watched beside the net and it hit my daughter’s left leg.”