The worst roller coaster accidents

[bmac]

I'm not sure if this is the right topic to bring this up in, and if it has been brought up on the forums somewhere, I'm sorry. When I was at Kings Dominion yesterday, when I was leaving the park, there was a fire truck, ambulance, suspervisors, and other trucks rushing over to Dominator. I couldn't tell what was happening though.

http://www.nbc12.com/story/19084224/gue ... inion-ride

 

[Jake]

An Enterprise caught fire in Estonia (2007):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99gahXSkFGA[/youtube]

Looks vile, especially the roulette game of who is in the fire when the ride stops <///3.

I can't really figure out WHAT caught fire. The engine bit maybe? Or the op cabin?

 

[wakey1512]

Its probably already been mentioned but the drop tower that snapped a cable and took a 13 year old girls feet off - by far the most gruesome I think.

Edit - the drop tower being superman tower of power at six flags kentucky.

 

[Idlewild]

An Enterprise caught fire in Estonia (2007):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99gahXSkFGA[/youtube]

Looks vile, especially the roulette game of who is in the fire when the ride stops <///3.

I can't really figure out WHAT caught fire. The engine bit maybe? Or the op cabin?

Looks like the hydrolic lifting mechanism.

 

[furie]

This?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10846571

Or maybe not, but she was trapped for half an hour and suffered not a jot! :lol:

 

[wakey1512]

http://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/200706/382/

 

[cookie]

How about the Krug Park coaster crash in the 30s that led to the city of Omaha banning rollercoasters?

 

[Nemesis of oblivion]

Avalanche, the big one and the big dipper at pleasure beach blackpool. Their are videos of each incident on youtube.

 

[Gavin]

^ Yeah, all those deaths and injuries were horrific.

 

[tks]

What he means is the people of Blackpool are all accidents.

 

[Lofty]

^ You're back <3

Yeah, the only injury from Avalanche was bruised ribs, ****, I got that when I slipped in the bath, it's nothing major.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

The Mindbender crash was pretty bad, but I'm really surprised no one has mentioned the Xcelerator at Knotts Berry Farm accident in September 2009. A 12 year old boy's leg got cut open by a cable. Yes, cut open. This isn't a coaster but it was small ride at Six Flags New Orleans where a 4 year old boy's grandmother tried to make sure if his restraint was in enough and the ride dispatched and the grandmother died. Yes, that even makes ME sad.

 

[Martyn B]

but I'm really surprised no one has mentioned the Xcelerator at Knotts Berry Farm accident in September 2009. A 12 year old boy's leg got cut open by a cable

How can you say "I'm really surprised no one has mentioned...." when you haven't even read the topic?

It was discussed on the last page.