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Ride/Park Accidents
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pluk
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American law is a strange beast, isnt it these? These things can have significant baring depending on the mechanics of what has happened, which at the moment is unknown.
pluk
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Report indicates operator error led to haunted mine drop incident, with the girl sitting on top of her seatbelt rather than under it because it wasn't reset properly after the previous riders, the seatbelts weren't checked before dispatch, and the ride being reset when the error code was shown.
Oh dear.
Oh dear.
pluk
TS Member
USA (obviously) - worker takes it upon himself to use a real knife in Haunted House attraction, accidently stabs boy trying to scare him. Minor injury, worker charged and sacked.
pluk
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Hull - 6 year girl has her finger sliced off at the knuckle. Somehow her finger got into the mechanism for the spinning floors of a fun house.
Skyscraper
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- Favourite Ride
- Nemesis
Cable car crash: One person is killed and several others injured after carriage detached from its cable and smashed into mountain in the Czech Republic
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ae463-05f4-4dcd-8345-102ceb9f9033&ai=10150023
The second cable car accident in just a few years. Not sure I want to ride one again, to be honest.
RIP.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ae463-05f4-4dcd-8345-102ceb9f9033&ai=10150023
The second cable car accident in just a few years. Not sure I want to ride one again, to be honest.
RIP.
jon81uk
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618 people died in car accidents last year in the UK alone, does knowing that make you not want to get in a car again?
pluk
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I'm all for defending the safety of generally very safe rides, but that's a very silly comparison.
How many trillions of miles do people collectively travel in cars in the time those deaths occurred? And home many on large cable car gondolas?
The gondola statistics based on the last year will be hugely worse.
jon81uk
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Good point, although the number is higher, you are right the percentage of users experiancing an incident will be lower. However I just think sometimes it is the perception of risk, people see a single incident on a usually safe system and it feels worth than a larger number on a different system.
NuttySquirrel
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- Favourite Ride
- Batman: Gotham City Escape
Yeah it's really not good; to have two such incidents in the space of a few months is very concerning. They should give the illusion of being scary whilst actually being very safe (rather like a rollercoaster); clearly, however, accidents do happen :-(
Can't believe I rode on an old Soviet one of these with holes in the floor in south Russia (Elbrus mountain). Having said that, I don't think that one ever crashed...
Themeparksandy1981
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I think all theses things is based on the fact right place wrong time. If you worry about everything you would never leave your bed. I given up talking about theme parks to my co-workers as I got the same response that they value there life and still want to walk again at the end of the day. A old school friend lost his life over 10 years ago after been shot many times in a pub just because he was wearing roughly the same clothes as the original target who had popped the toilet.
I think the biggest problem with uk rides compared to other parts of the world is the standard of testing and H&S in place.
I think the biggest problem with uk rides compared to other parts of the world is the standard of testing and H&S in place.
jon81uk
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I was going to like your post, until this sentance.
The standard of testing in the UK is fine. Better than many places in the world, south America and Asia probably have a lot more ride accidents than we do.
In most recent theme park accidents in the UK testing had nothing to do with it, it was standards of checking, monitoring and operating the rides once in motion on both the Smiler and Splash Canyon.
Maybe on fairground rides more testing would help, but as they are often dismantled and reassembled I'm not sure testing would pick up on something that has happened when putting it together for one particular location.
pluk
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I read the comment the other way round, that reports on the accidents we see around the world reflect badly on the UK industry when they'd be far less likely here due to our comparatively high safety and inspection procedures.
Tom
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Unless I'm mistaken, the Health and Safety Executive's budget has been roughly halved in actual terms by the Conservative Party. If you add in inflation and population increases then it's been even more severely affected.
Yes, the UK has one of the best safety systems in the world, but accidents do still occur and there needs to be continuous improvement.
Yes, the UK has one of the best safety systems in the world, but accidents do still occur and there needs to be continuous improvement.
Themeparksandy1981
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Yes I was saying good things about the uk theme parks as I feel safe but I can’t say the same at a knock off people in Asia.
The Smiler and the rapids ride now have hopefully become the safety rides in the world. Like you only have to watch vlog’s from around the world where safety bars are checked by guests and even not at all.
Themeparksandy1981
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Not sure if it's best to put this video here
I found it very interesting but unsure if it was all true.
I found it very interesting but unsure if it was all true.
pluk
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No idea what it was, but as it's swiftly been pulled I'm guessing it wasn't!
America - Out of court settlement reached after rider tipped out of big wheel gondola as posted on here a couple of years back. Both the operator, inspector, and the manufacturer Chance Rides were filed against, you can read into that what you will but it's likely nothing more will be known about it, which is a shame for industry learning.
Alsty
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- Favourite Ride
- Shambhala
Not really an accident, just a complete non- event which has somehow made the media:
Winter Wonderland power cut shuts Looping Munich rollercoaster
Thrill seekers had to walk down from a rollercoaster at Winter Wonderland after a power cut stopped it mid-ride.
Munich Looping, billed as the world's largest transportable rollercoaster, stopped working on Monday afternoon.
The ride, in Hyde Park, central London, remains closed but the incident is not thought to have caused any injuries.
Read full article here.
I couldn't share it without including this quote from an eyewitness:
"Then it went a little bit forward, like a few inches twice, and we thought we were going to get stuck on the loop upside down and we were really scared and it was really cold."
Oh do behave.
Winter Wonderland power cut shuts Looping Munich rollercoaster
Thrill seekers had to walk down from a rollercoaster at Winter Wonderland after a power cut stopped it mid-ride.
Munich Looping, billed as the world's largest transportable rollercoaster, stopped working on Monday afternoon.
The ride, in Hyde Park, central London, remains closed but the incident is not thought to have caused any injuries.
Read full article here.
I couldn't share it without including this quote from an eyewitness:
"Then it went a little bit forward, like a few inches twice, and we thought we were going to get stuck on the loop upside down and we were really scared and it was really cold."
Oh do behave.