Ride/Park Accidents

[b2311e]

Might be a little out of scope for this thread, but...

A family's trip to an amusement park in Mexico quickly turned into a near-disaster last week when a young boy plunged about 40 feet from a zip line. The child survived after falling into a lake and being rescued by multiple bystanders.


Video of the harrowing ordeal at Parque Fundidora in Monterrey, Mexico, shows the young boy sliding across the zip line accompanied by an adult. When they appear to be approaching the end of the line, they stop moving, and the young boy suddenly plummets as a woman is heard screaming.

According to local media outlet ABC Noticias, the boy fell about 12 meters – nearly 40 feet.

Video in the link:

Video shows the moment a 6-year-old boy fell 40 feet from a zip line in Mexico — and survived

The young boy's sister wrote on Facebook that someone jumped into the lake to rescue her little brother — and that they both had to be rescued from nearly drowning.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[pluk]

Might be a little out of scope for this thread, but...


Video in the link:

Video shows the moment a 6-year-old boy fell 40 feet from a zip line in Mexico — and survived

The young boy's sister wrote on Facebook that someone jumped into the lake to rescue her little brother — and that they both had to be rescued from nearly drowning.

www.cbsnews.com

Survived by landing in water, the water is only under a little bit of the line. Incredibly lucky!

 

[pluk]

Riders stuck upside down for three hours on roller coaster at Wisconsin fair.

For once it's not the media not understanding which way up amounts to upside-down, these people were actually stuck upside-down for three hours and needed medical checkups when one of those awful fireballs jammed up.

 

[Jb85]

@pluk The link doesn't work

 

[pluk]

@pluk The link doesn't work

Try this one

https://www.wisn.com/article/riders-stuck-upside-down-for-three-hours-on-roller-coaster-at-wisconsin-fair/44421859

 

[Poisson]

It's region locked, needs a VPN to get around it

 

[Rick]

12ft Ladder - https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.wisn.com/article/riders-stuck-upside-down-for-three-hours-on-roller-coaster-at-wisconsin-fair/44421859

@Jb85

 

[BooMT]

Saw a video clip of this on Facebook:

 

[pluk]

It's region locked, needs a VPN to get around it

I've read both those articles on my phone, now they are both unreadable and region locked for me too. How odd.

 

[Zeock]

Riders stuck upside down for three hours on roller coaster at Wisconsin fair.

For once it's not the media not understanding which way up amounts to upside-down, these people were actually stuck upside-down for three hours and needed medical checkups when one of those awful fireballs jammed up.

I've just seen this. It looks awful (the Larson attraction in question and the incident).

 

[pluk]

South Africa - 9 injured when the top comes off swing ride. Looks like a homemade contraption. Video in link.

 

[pluk]

USA - 5 YO boy falls about 20 ft from water slide on to rocks, extent of injury not clear. Ride reopened the next day!

USA - Worker killed while servicing Gravatron ride. Ride was closed at the time.

FIJI - Woman killed and others injured in Ferris Wheel incident.

 

[Spark]

Jesus its turning out to be a bad year

 

[pluk]

A little more on the Gravetron death

According to their spokesperson, the ride was turned off, but this process involves them [manually] rotating the ride. They say all the workers believed they heard everyone say "clear" before proceeding, but unfortunately, Lee's head wasn't out of the way. He died after the incident.

"They told him to go clear and thought he was clear, but a pole came back and hit him in the head,"

 

[pluk]

Illinois, USA - 10 year old boy airlifted to hospital after being thrown from a ride. Exact ride not specified but it appears a pirate ship and a miami are cordoned off... my money would be on the miami!

 

[pluk]

And no shocks at all to find it is the Miami the boy was thrown from.


From: https://youtu.be/Jfy9dbhn9q0


Although I am surprised it is an individual OTSR configuration. It's usually the long lap bar versions that randomly launch people.

 

[Rob F]

Carriage come off chassis on a kiddie coaster
https://www.looopings.nl/weblog/23053/Gewonden-na-ontsporing-van-treintje-op-Spaanse-kermis.html

 

[pluk]

Holland - man hospitalised at festival attraction, supposed to fall from height onto an inflated stunt mat, misses mat.

 

[pluk]

USA - 5 YO boy falls about 20 ft from water slide on to rocks, extent of injury not clear. Ride reopened the next day!

A swift resolution to this one, investigated, suspected user error, new signage requested.
I imagine if it happened here the thing would be closed for months and HSE would submit their report in a year or so!

 

[pluk]

Cedar Point - man hit in head by mobile phone while Maverick. Bleeding and concussion.

Quite an interesting round up of reported incidents across Florida. Mostly people being taken ill after riding something probably a little too exciting for an existing medical condition, including one fatality of a 44 year old, and a whole lot of motion sickness.