Ride/Park Accidents

[BooMT]

From what I've heard from YT vids, the PLC waits for both trains to be on the launch / boost track, then accelerates the "loosing" train to the target speed faster, to keep the "race" as close as possible.

I can fully believe that someone who has passed out with only a lap restraint would be thrown around like the proverbial rag doll. If they had flopped forward, and the train is passing through the pull out of a drop, where the car in front suddenly gets a lot closer.... that could lead to some nasty head injuries.

But I still feel like there must be another factor here.

This is of course speculative, I haven't seen any hard evidence, however, I have read claims that the passenger had a disability of some kind that meant he was unable to support himself adequately against the forces. Whether this is factual remains to be seen; surely they have strict enough policy at Universal to ensure something like this would be avoided?

 

[DiogoJ42]

This is of course speculative, I haven't seen any hard evidence, however, I have read claims that the passenger had a disability of some kind that meant he was unable to support himself adequately against the forces. Whether this is factual remains to be seen; surely they have strict enough policy at Universal to ensure something like this would be avoided?

Hmmm, seems like the kind of thing we aren't allowed to speculate about....

 

[flyingguitar]

From what I've heard from YT vids, the PLC waits for both trains to be on the launch / boost track, then accelerates the "loosing" train to the target speed faster, to keep the "race" as close as possible.

I have heard that too, on the second (or third if you count that initial as two) launch

I was refering to the fact that there isn't a slow transition into the high force that you typically feel on lims, I think it is because it is as they are waiting untill both trains are fully on the lim's to launch then kicking the lim's in, it was a really powerfull kick when I was on it

the reason i mentioned it is because the only other times I have felt such a launch is on rita / stealth and I was thinking that there are some relatively intense manuvers between the first and seccond launch I was wondering if that could have accounted for some of the injuries as if you are leaning forward it is quite a kick (it also is quite hard to predict when you launch if you are close to the front, as you enter and have to wait for the whole train to enter, then launch, the split in the initial launch is also quite unexpected

arround 2:35 and 4:50 shows it quite well, the ride waits for the train to fully enter the lim's, then you hear the lim's kick in and people screaming (you can also see the initial launch is split in 2 as well)

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy_Q19EK-SQ

I can fully believe that someone who has passed out with only a lap restraint would be thrown around like the proverbial rag doll. If they had flopped forward, and the train is passing through the pull out of a drop, where the car in front suddenly gets a lot closer.... that could lead to some nasty head injuries.

Yeah, but that lap bar is very large, and comes quite a way up people bellies, I think it is the same (or similar) to hyperia, it has a cut out but to reach the metal bar on the lap bar would be quite a task as I think it would have had to fold their spines not really their hip to make them make contact with the lap bars.

(I wonder if they were leaning forwards, then the launches smashed them into the back)

 

[djtruefitt]

I have heard that too, on the second (or third if you count that initial as two) launch

I was refering to the fact that there isn't a slow transition into the high force that you typically feel on lims, I think it is because it is as they are waiting untill both trains are fully on the lim's to launch then kicking the lim's in, it was a really powerfull kick when I was on it

the reason i mentioned it is because the only other times I have felt such a launch is on rita / stealth and I was thinking that there are some relatively intense manuvers between the first and seccond launch I was wondering if that could have accounted for some of the injuries as if you are leaning forward it is quite a kick (it also is quite hard to predict when you launch if you are close to the front, as you enter and have to wait for the whole train to enter, then launch, the split in the initial launch is also quite unexpected

arround 2:35 and 4:50 shows it quite well, the ride waits for the train to fully enter the lim's, then you hear the lim's kick in and people screaming (you can also see the initial launch is split in 2 as well)

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy_Q19EK-SQ



Yeah, but that lap bar is very large, and comes quite a way up people bellies, I think it is the same (or similar) to hyperia, it has a cut out but to reach the metal bar on the lap bar would be quite a task as I think it would have had to fold their spines not really their hip to make them make contact with the lap bars.

(I wonder if they were leaning forwards, then the launches smashed them into the back)

The guy was definitely very slumped forward over the restraint when the train came back into the station, was hard to see from where we were if he had his the bar in front, but it did seem that way. Especially with the panic the passenger next to him was showing.