Emergency services were called to Pencester Gardens in Dover on Wednesday morning. The site was home to the Family Funfair run by Kent-based Forrest Amusements, which, according to a poster, was due to open to the public on Wednesday. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating the circumstances of the incident, which Kent Police said was “not suspicious”. A South East Coast Ambulance Service spokesman said: “We were called at 7.42am. this morning to a serious incident at Pencester Gardens in Dover. “We immediately dispatched a number of clinical resources to the scene, including our own [hazardous area response team] and critical care paramedics. However, sadly a teenage boy was pronounced dead at the scene.” A Kent Police spokesman said: “Kent Police were called by South East Coast Ambulance Service to Pencester Gardens, Dover, at 7.45am. on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. “No suspicious circumstances have been reported and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been informed.” A spokesman for the HSE said: “The HSE is assisting the emergency services in their response.” A spokesman for Forrest Amusements declined to comment, but said the company would issue a statement later. Its website says it was founded in 1889 and is the largest supplier of tourist attractions in the county. A witness told the PA news agency that she had seen “three ambulances, some fire engines and some police vehicles along Pencester Street, which was blocked off”. He added: “They said there had been a fatality and the entrance to the exhibition had been taped off.”
