January 14, 201510 yr Author comment_200874 Chile - Vekoma Boomerang injures 22 - Minor injuries like whiplash, it seems. Looks like the train has separated leaving the rear cars in the station, so an estop has occurred. Which is a damn good thing because on a Boomerang that would go bad real quick! Shortest Boomerang train ever. Google translate says... An accident Saturday afternoon occurred in a game Fantasyland amusement park in Santiago , leaving 22 people injured .The incident occurred in Boomerang roller coaster , where the last cars would have been released, separated from others. This generated the emergency brake is activated , causing injuries to passengers.Lesions of people ranging from nervous shock and whiplash . These were taken to medical grounds by the company to be served.The downtown attractions open on Sunday reported that normally, but the game Boomerang closed for review.
February 2, 201510 yr comment_201996 Following on from the Chile Boomerang incident a video of the incident unfolding (a view from the back car as it separated) Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422579428&x-yt-cl=85114404&v=3AyIq32whv4 EDIT: Just been told that the link doesnt work.... Should be fixed now.
February 3, 201510 yr Author comment_202027 Boutros Boutros Ghali, ess-ess-essess, Chris waddle. That stopped pretty damn sharpish! I guess the ride 'knows' that nothing should be going through there while the train is on the lift, so applys all the brakes and shuts down immediately? Either that or the op was really on the ball; if that car had continued through and then back down to the station from the other way under gravity, and the main train been released, there would have been a hell of a coming together. Fatal I'd expect. I presume Vekoma have been buying cables off of Intamin?!
February 11, 201510 yr Author comment_202518 USA - Facial injuries to female thrown from a Music Express, apparently after her restraint opened while the ride was in motion. A rare Mack Rides incident!
March 15, 201510 yr comment_205174 Accident on Green Lantern in Australia. A wheel mechanism apparently fell off. No one hurt. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-31898746
March 15, 201510 yr comment_205212 doesn't look to good with the back row hanging off the track almost can't be good news for S&S or the park for that matter... lucky no-one was hurt though.
April 9, 201510 yr Author comment_206808 China - Knock off pendulum ride crashes to the ground, amazingly no one killed. Australia - Drunken staff manage to cause themselves multiple injuries on a rather awesome looking slide Arizona - Bumper Boat bursts into flames burning two children.
May 7, 201510 yr Author comment_208844 China - 2 dead after falling from a gondala ride which started before riders had been secured. Tripoli - 1 dead as unknown ride apparently colapses.
May 26, 201510 yr Author comment_209584 Nasty, and quite fortunate not to be worse injuries. I know it looks like it's made of Meccano, I didn't realise it actually was!
May 31, 201510 yr Author comment_209866 A few bits... - LIVERPOOL - 2 children hospitalised when part of a lighting rig came down on them while riding a Twister. Quite a substantial section came down... - An update on a previous Twister incident, an operator has been fined for failing to secure riders and running the ride at excess speed injuring two in 2012. I'm surprised it's even possible to run it that much faster than intended, but apparently it is. - BARMOUTH, WALES, man hospitalised after being hit by by Caterpillar coaster train. Of all the ways for an adult to be injured at the fair this has to be of the most embarrassing. - LAFAYETTE - 4 children injured when seating falls from kidde roundabout. Investigators confirm this was because someone forgot to bolt them on to the ride before it opened... - NASHVILLE - a novelty trainload of OAP's injured when the man driving a lawnmower dressed as a train looses control of it and flips it over. I should not find this hilarious. - INDIA - man seriously hurt colliding with another on a waterslide. Nothing unusual, but he had to be taken to hospital on a rickshaw due to a lack of ambulances!
June 14, 201510 yr Author comment_211244 A few bits that aren't The Smiler... California - Injuries unknown. B&M inverter Flight Deck at Great America strikes worker, also injuring rider. California - Injuries unknown. Girl found unconscious after riding revolution at 6FMM. Not known if ride related. Maine - Injuries unknown. Travelling kiddie coaster falls apart during operation, three children hurt. At the same carnival a woman is hurt trying to get off a swing ride before it stops. USA - The ride operator in the 2013 Vortex incident pleads guilty to assault with a deadly weapon having bypassed the rides safety system. Calafornia - Woman dies falling from free drop platform. Not a ride, but a fairground attraction jumping onto an air pillow. Presumably she missed the pillow.
June 15, 201510 yr Author comment_211298 Blackpool - Report on man who broke his back while riding the National last year. Appears he had an underlying back problem when riding.
June 16, 201510 yr Author comment_211365 http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-girl-dies-magic-mountain-ride-20150615-story.html California - the girl who lost consciousness riding Revolution at 6FMM has died in hospital. The ride has been reclosed pending an investigation.
June 27, 201510 yr comment_212147 This is horrific, how does a park, or an emergency service deal with such a thing, terrible. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33300970
August 11, 201510 yr comment_214622 Oh dammnnnn http://wonderworldweb.over-blog.com/2015/08/du-luna-park-cap-d-agde-france.html
August 13, 201510 yr comment_214984 Sad news at Cedar Point - http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/ohio/2015/08/13/cedar-point--investigation/31663211/
August 14, 201510 yr comment_215003 Sad for the park and enthusiasts sure, not sad for the idiot, Darwin Award nominee right there. The volume wasn't great on the video, but did I hear he worked in a school? We all laughed with the 'danger of death' signs at Thorpe and Alton (Blackpool has them too), but maybe there is good reason for them, I can't believe people are still that stupid even after millions of years of evolution.
August 14, 201510 yr Author comment_215004 I can't believe people are still that stupid even after millions of years of evolution. We've broken evolution with do-good-ing! Not got a lot of sympathy for the guy, just thankful it seems he's been hit by the ride vehicle and not someone on it who he could easily have taken with him.
August 14, 201510 yr comment_215005 We gotta be careful to be a little too insensitive, as of course it is sad news, but it's people with a lack of BASIC common sense like this that make H&S go stupid and add tonnes more signs and make fences even higher, and in reality with a nicely themed park ruin the themed experience of the rides. Gotta feel sorry for the people actually on the ride at the time... But it's evolution through the process of natural selection right!?
August 14, 201510 yr comment_215007 I always find it interesting how these incidents always tend to happen in the States... Just, peculiar really...
August 14, 201510 yr comment_215012 I always find it interesting how these incidents always tend to happen in the States... Just, peculiar really... I almost had someone try and get a hat at Fury on the first drop. He then threatened to punch me and my colleague for trying to stop him.
August 14, 201510 yr comment_215014 Edit not at your post Mark... It is idiots like those that ruin it for the perfectly sensible ones.
August 14, 201510 yr comment_215018 Yes this guy made a stupid decision but please remember this guy has a family and friends who have just had a huge hole punched into their lives. I know nobody here would climb a fence at a theme park, but we all take risks assuming it'll work out for us! Crossing a road when the lights are red etc. Please try and have a little bit of respect. If your best friend or mother did this, you wouldn't be calling anyone an idiot. tl;dr... Stay in school and learn to read signs, but have some respect even though you don't know/judge the guy.
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