ORLANDO, Fla. _ An Orange County woman is suing Disney after she says she was run over by a motorized scooter last year at Epcot and knocked to the ground.
Dee Ann Glover, who filed the lawsuit Monday in Orange Circuit Court, is seeking more than $15,000 in damages.
Glover, 59, a Disney annual passholder, said she was hit from behind and didn't see the electric scooter coming. She needed surgery to pin a steel rod into her hip and could require hip replacement surgery in the future, her attorney Trenton Swan said.
"This lawsuit centers on an incident between two guests," a Disney spokeswoman said in a statement. "We are committed to providing a safe environment for our cast members and guests, and we will respond to the allegations as appropriate in court."
The lawsuit alleges that Disney was negligent because there are no designated scooter lanes to separate riders from visitors on foot and scooter drivers don't get safety instructions.
"It was reasonably foreseeable that an individual could be run into by a scooter due to the vast amount of people on foot and on scooters in one congested area," the lawsuit said. "The dangerous conditions had existed for a sufficient length of time so that (Disney) knew or should have known."
In December, the fight over a similar lawsuit ended. A woman who sued Disney after a scooter ran into her at a Hollywood Studios gift shop voluntarily dismissed her lawsuit, according to court records.
