Ride/Park Accidents

[DiogoJ42]

What type of ride is that, exactly? Looks like a non-KMG Move It of some kind?

 

[Skyscraper]

What type of ride is that, exactly? Looks like a non-KMG Move It of some kind?

Apparently it was manufactured by Soriani & Moser and is a Top Star Tour model.

 

[IDB]

Somewhere in international waters, two suffer injuries when the bottom of a drop slide splits open. Some miracle noone fell from height.






Ouch.

Here’s a video of it.

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[popey85]

Accident' on ride at Welsh pleasure park as police and fire crews called​

Emergency services are in attendance at a funfair in Porthcawl following reports of injuries and a ride derailing at Coney Beach Amusement Park hope all children are ok

Weiterleitungshinweis

 

[DiogoJ42]

BBC article without a paywall.
Sounds like a wacky worm derailed?

Police called to Coney Beach Pleasure Park accident on ride

Footage from Coney Beach appears to show adults helping a number of children off the ride.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[IDB]

Quick to distance themselves from the ride.

"Due to an incident on a third-party ride not owned by Coney Beach, we were instructed by the police to clear the site for further investigation.”

 

[flyingguitar]

looks not too serious (interms of injury) but a pretty big screw up:

looking at it, there are a few options that could have happened, however I can't imagine it not being one of these issues:
track out of guage, allowing up stop wheels through and above the track
up stop wheel mounts bent (happened on a similar type of ride in florida if I recall correctly)
up stop wheels / assembly detached / not present

 

[b2311e]

Power Tower at Cedar Point (S&S shot/drop tower) has had a cable snap. Thankfully, no injuries:

Images:

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News article:

Cedar Point drop tower evacuated after cable fails: 'Sounded like Earth was coming to end'

'I yelled, ‘Oh my God!’ It happened so fast. Then the cable hit the guard tower.'

abc6onyourside.com

 

[spotweld]

looks not too serious (interms of injury) but a pretty big screw up:

looking at it, there are a few options that could have happened, however I can't imagine it not being one of these issues:
track out of guage, allowing up stop wheels through and above the track
up stop wheel mounts bent (happened on a similar type of ride in florida if I recall correctly)
up stop wheels / assembly detached / not present

Can't park there mate.

 

[IDB]

BBC article without a paywall.
Sounds like a wacky worm derailed?

Police called to Coney Beach Pleasure Park accident on ride

Footage from Coney Beach appears to show adults helping a number of children off the ride.

www.bbc.co.uk

The article has been updated with an eyewitness account. The metal railing falling onto a pram is a curious one?

 

[DiogoJ42]

RtRM's take on things.
He seems to think the trim brakes on the drop must have been ripped up by the train's fin jamming in it somehow. Certainly seems plausible to me.


From: https://youtu.be/QdQUWpSPU3E

 

[flyingguitar]

RtRM's take on things.
He seems to think the trim brakes on the drop must have been ripped up by the train's fin jamming in it somehow. Certainly seems plausible to me.


From: https://youtu.be/QdQUWpSPU3E

Yeah just saw that, I didn't see the brake earlier, I would certainly have to agree as it seems like the most likely scenario.

even if it was something else (such as being derailed before hitting the brakes (see disney BTM derailment)) it rases questions about the maitanence of the ride