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Ride/Park Accidents

Skyscraper said:
A 4 year old was "found unconscious" according to a statement on Water World's Facebook;


From: https://www.facebook.com/waterworldaquapark/posts/pfbid0WXFwr79eu2xokR499Tzv3Mxkyb8M25AkLN1JKJbuzPQ1yvBizTTBed719mAHX99tl


RIP little one 😢
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RIP very tragic. I do not like to speculate on what happened, but a consensus online seems to be the girl was perhaps left unattended by her guardian. As a parent myself, I know that you only need to take your eye off a toddler for seconds until they are causing chaos. It sounds like a very unfortunate accident. Waterworld has reopened today, which would suggest it was more of an accident rather than protocols not being followed by Waterworld itself.
 
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Looking at those pics, it's quite a sharp pullout from the initial drop. The spot that failed is going to be under some pretty strong forces.
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Most flumes have a fibreglass bottom section for a reason. Transparent acrylic is brittle.
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Put those two things together, and to me, at least, it seems like a rather "brave" choice of design.
 
DiogoJ42 said:
[This is complete conjecture disclaimer]

Looking at those pics, it's quite a sharp pullout from the initial drop. The spot that failed is going to be under some pretty strong forces.
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Most flumes have a fibreglass bottom section for a reason. Transparent acrylic is brittle.
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Put those two things together, and to me, at least, it seems like a rather "brave" choice of design.
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This is conjecture too, but that down section looks almost vertical, what is the possibility that some people going down that section could be in a kind of freefall if they took whatever is above with some speed. I know I have been airborne a few times on slides,. This could result in people slamming down onto almost exactly where that section failed when they re connect with the flume.

Very lucky that things were not much worse by the looks of it.
 
pluk said:
It is a trap door release slide, so by design people are literally being dropped onto that section from quite a height.
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That makes perfect sense then, I have almost no doubt that some people were slamming into that section that gave way. I did the same on the drop slide at Water World in Stoke and few months back, the drop and then the pull-out on that is much smaller and WAY less sharp.
 
DistortAMG said:
This is conjecture too, but that down section looks almost vertical, what is the possibility that some people going down that section could be in a kind of freefall if they took whatever is above with some speed. I know I have been airborne a few times on slides,. This could result in people slamming down onto almost exactly where that section failed when they re connect with the flume.

Very lucky that things were not much worse by the looks of it.
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I think it is angled, but angled away from the cameras view, most "vertical drop" type of slides are about 20 degs angled to prevent exactly what you just suggested as that would probably hurt a lot of people (in addition, if it wasn't angled I think the failure would have been much higher, as it curves off quite early so people wouldn't have hit that section)

it could be quite a few things, manurfacturing defects causing bubbles in the acrylic which then caused stress cracks and a failure, engineering faulure (this tube us supported from the top, most slides I have seen are supported from the bottom, very different loading perhaps it can support it from the top, but no fatigue analysis was run so it failed due to fatigue), it could also be due to the sea perhaps the salty air affected the acrylic or the waves/deformation of the ship stressed the tube in unconsidered ways
 
I wonder if the ship might have pitched or rolled at just the right wrong moment to cause that drop to become a lot steeper than it was designed to be? I'd assume they wouldn't open the slides in rough seas. But freak waves do happen.

.... The more I think about it, the more putting a gravity-driven attraction like a flume or coaster on a moving ship seems like a terrible idea.
 
Skyscraper said:
Guest injured at German fair when part of the Predator ride comes loose

www1.wdr.de

Am letzten Tag der Cranger Kirmes: Ein Verletzter bei Unfall mit Fahrgeschäft

Am letzten Tag der Cranger Kirmes in Herne hat es einen Unfall mit einem Fahrgeschäft gegeben. Eine Person wurde verletzt.
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(Article is in German)
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https://cranger-kirmes.de/2025/08/10/unfall/
More info here - translated below


On the last day of the fair (Sunday 10.8), at 18.50 a man was hit by the rear cover of a gondola that had come loose from the ride „Predator“ and was slightly injured in the temple. A woman standing by then began to hyperventilate. Both people were treated very quickly on site by DRK employees. The hyperventilating person calmed down a short time later and discharged himself, the other person was transported to the hospital for further treatment.



At around 19.45 the first aid measures were completed and the DRK left the scene of the accident. The ride itself was cordoned off to preserve evidence by the police, who also used a drone to investigate. Finally, the ride was cordoned off with fences by the organizer of the Cranger fair, the public order department. At around 20.20 all measures were completed.



The operation of the overhead ride „Predator“ on the northwest side of the square opposite the „Alpen Coaster“ and „BayernTower“ was stopped until the end of the fair. The ride can be dismantled tomorrow as planned.



The Cranger Kirmes fair operations continue as normal, and the planned fireworks display will also take place at 22.30 p.m
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