Pretparkongelukken #3

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In the period that Action Park has been open (from 1978 to 1996) six people are known to have died directly or indirectly from rides at Action Park:

On July 8, 1980, a 19-year-old park employee was riding the alpine slide when his car jumped the track and his head struck a rock, killing him.

On July 24, 1982, a 15-year-old boy drowned in the Tidal Wave Pool.

A week later, on August 1, a 27-year-old man from Long Island got out of his tipped kayak on the Kayak Experience to right it. He was electrocuted when he stepped on a grate that was either in contact with, or came too close to, a section of wiring for the underwater fans that was exposed. Several other members of his family nearby were also injured. He was taken to a hospital in nearby Warwick, New York where he died later of heart failure from the electric shock.

The park at first disputed that the electric current caused his death, saying there were no burns on his body, but the coroner responded that burns generally do not occur in a water-based electrocution.

The ride was drained and closed for the investigation. Accounts differed as to the extent of the exposed wiring: the park said it was "just a nick," while others said it was more like 8 inches (20 cm). The state's Labor Department found that the fan was properly maintained and installed and cleared the park of wrongdoing; however it also said the current had the possibility to cause bodily harm under certain circumstances. While the park said it was vindicated, it never reopened the ride, saying people would be afraid to go on it afterwards.

In 1984, a fatal heart attack suffered by one visitor was unofficially believed to have been triggered by the shock of the cold water in the pool beneath the Tarzan Swing. The water on the Tarzan Swing and in that swimming area was 50-60 °F (10-16 °C) while other water areas were in the 70-80 °F (21-27 °C) range more typical of swimming pools. The Tarzan swing and the cannon ball ride in this area were operated by spring water.

On August 27 of that year, a 20-year-old from Brooklyn drowned in the Wave Pool.

On July 19, 1987, an 18-year-old drowned in the Tidal Wave Pool.

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Een 6 jarige jongetje bleek te klein om in de supersnelle achtbaan te mogen. De bestuurder van de rit kreeg medelijden met hem, en besloot dat hij toch mee mocht rijden. Die fout werd het jongetje fataal. Na de eerste looping gleed hij tussen de beugels door en viel 10 meter naar beneden. Wonder boven wonder krabbelde het jochie weer overeind alsof er niets was gebeurd. Zijn opgeluchte ouders barstten in tranen uit en liepen naar hem toe. Maar voordat zij bij hem waren aangekomen werd het jongetje meegesleurd door dezelfde kar waar hij net was uitgevallen. Het tweede ongeluk overleefde hij niet.

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A woman broke her leg, and a man was killed in one of the worst acts of poor judgment I've ever heard of. A couple went on the Top Gun rollercoaster, where the wife lost her hat. After the ride, her husband decided to jump a fence, ignoring several warning signs, to go get his wife's hat. As he was getting the hat, the train came by, he was kicked in the head by a female rider. The woman on the coaster broke her leg, the man on the ground was killed.

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Eight guests have been killed on Disneyland attractions since the park's opening in 1955. All the deaths (save the most recent) were the result of guests who apparently ignored safety instructions and/or defeated rides' safety mechanisms.

May 1964: Mark Maples, a 15-year-old Long Beach, CA, resident, was killed when he tried to stand up on the Matterhorn Bobsleds. Maples (or his companion) foolishly unbuckled his seatbeat and attempted to stand up as their bobsled neared the peak of the mountain. Maples lost his balance and was thrown from the sled to the track below, fracturing his skull and ribs and causing internal injuries. He died three days later.

June 1966: Thomas Guy Cleveland, a 19-year-old Northridge, CA, resident, was killed when he attempted to sneak into Disneyland along the Monorail track. Cleveland scaled the park's sixteen-foot high outer fence on a Grad Nite and climbed onto the Monorail track, intending to jump or climb down once inside the park. Cleveland ignored a security guard's shouted warnings of an approaching Monorail train and failed to leap clear of the track. He finally climbed down onto a fiberglass canopy beneath the track, but the clearance wasn't enough -- the oncoming train struck and killed him, dragging his body 30 to 40 feet down the track.

August 1967: Ricky Lee Yama, a 17-year-old Hawthorne, CA, resident, was killed when he disregarded safety instructions and exited his People Mover car as the ride was passing through a tunnel. Yama slipped as he was jumping from car to car and was crushed to death beneath the wheels of oncoming cars.

June 1973: Bogden Delaurot, an 18-year-old Brooklyn resident, drowned trying to swim across the Rivers of America. Delaurot and his 10-year-old brother managed to stay on Tom Sawyer Island past its dusk closing time by climbing the fence separating the island from the burning settlers' cabin. When they decided to leave the island a few hours later, they chose to swim across the river rather than call attention to their rule-breaking by appealing to cast members for help. Because the younger brother did not know how to swim, Delaurot tried to carry him on his back as he swam to shore. Bogden Delaurot went down about halfway across the river. The younger boy remained afloat by dogpaddling until a ride operator hauled him aboard a boat, but Bogden was nowhere to be found. His body was not located by searchers until the next morning.

7 June 1980: Gerardo Gonzales, a recent San Diego high school graduate, was killed on the People Mover in an accident much like the one that had befallen Ricky Lee Yama thirteen years earlier. Gonzales, in the early morning hours of a Grad Nite celebration, was climbing from car to car as the People Mover entered the SuperSpeed Tunnel adjacent to the former America Sings building. Gonzales stumbled and fell onto the track, where an oncoming train of cars crushed him beneath its wheels and dragged his body a few hundred feet before being stopped by a ride operator.

4 June 1983: Philip Straughan, an 18-year-old Albuquerque, New Mexico, resident, also drowned in the Rivers of America in yet another Grad Nite incident. Straughan and a friend -- celebrating both their graduations and Straughan's eighteenth birthday -- had been drinking quite heavily that evening. They sneaked into a "Cast Members Only" area along the river and untied an inflatable rubber maintenance motorboat, deciding to take it for a joyride around the river. Unable to adequately control the boat, they struck a rock near Tom Sawyer Island, and Straughan was thrown into the water. His friend travelled back to shore to seek help, but Straughan drowned long before his body was finally located an hour later.

3 January 1984: Dolly Regene Young, a 48-year-old Fremont, CA, resident, was killed on the Matterhorn in an incident remarkably similar to the first Disneyland guest death nearly twenty years earlier. About two-thirds of the way down the mountain Young was thrown from her seat into the path of an oncoming bobsled, her head and chest becoming pinned beneath its wheels. An examination of Young's sled revealed that her seatbelt was not fastened at the time of the accident, but because she was riding alone in the rear car of a sled no one could determine whether or not she had deliberately unfastened her belt.

24 December 1998: In a tragic Christmas Eve accident, one Disneyland cast member and two guests were injured (one fatally) when a rope used to secure the sailing ship Columbia as it docked on the Rivers of America tore loose the metal cleat to which it was attached. The cleat sailed through air and struck the heads of two guests who were waiting to board the ship, Luan Phi Dawson, 33, of Duvall, Washington, and his wife, Lieu Thuy Vuong, 43. Dawson was declared brain dead two days later and died when his life support system was disconnected. This accident resulted in the first guest death in Disneyland's history that was not attributable to any negligence on the part of the guest -- the accident was the result of a combination of insufficiently rigorous ride maintenance and an insufficiently experienced supervisor's assuming an attraction operator's role -- and prompted a movement for greater government oversight of theme park operations and safety procedures.

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Twee jaar geleden waren wij in Duinrell. Mijn dochter van 12 ging samen met haar broer en zus in een grote zweefmolen die omhoog gaat en dan schuin knikt, de stoeltjes hangen dan een meter of 5 à 6 boven de grond. Toen hij echt vaart ging maken, zagen wij vanaf de grond dat mijn dochter wel heel vreemd in het stoeltje hing. In plaats dat ze met haar voeten naar buiten draaide, hing ze met haar hoofd naar voren! Wij zagen dat er aan de achterkant van haar stoeltje een ketting van een achter hangend stoeltje vastgehaakt zat. Ze begon ook keihard te gillen, want ze hing alleen nog maar aan het kettingkje wat je voor je buik doet! Het zag er naar uit dat ze er elk ogenblik uitgeslingerd zou worden. Mijn man trok een sprintje naar diegene die de attractie in de gaten moest houden, maar die zat lekker met zijn neus in een boek.....Inmiddels zagen de mensen in de rij wat eer gebeurde en begonnen er meer mensen te gillen. Toen pas kreeg de man in de gaten wat er gebeurde en drukte op de noodstop. Om zichzelf goed te praten kreeg mijn dochter op haar mieter, maar die meid wist helemaal van niks! Achteraf bleek dat er al de hele middag een paar klierige ventjes hiermee bezig waren, alleen zat er toen niemand in de stoeltjes. Toen mijn jongste dochter een paar uur later ook nog een groot voortand afbrak in het Tikibad, hadden wij het dan ook helemaal gehad met dit park.

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net over de grens is een duits open luchtbad, nordhorn golfslagbad. daar hebben ze een duiktoren met 1, 3, 5, 7.5 en 10 meter duikplank. de stoere bikkels springen niet alleen van de 10 maar ook dicht aan de kant zodat publiek nat word. dat schijnt een keer fout te zijn gegaan en iemand kwam met een been in het water en een been op de kant. dat is ongeveer hetzelfde als bert venenberg die een lucifer kapot mag breken.

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24 maart 2004: "Een zwaar ongeluk in een pretpark in Zuid Korea afgelopen zondag geeft eens te meer aan dat pretparken onveiliger zijn dan kermissen. In het pretpark in Sochon, Zuid Korea, stortten twee reddingswerkers naar beneden toen de gondel van twintig meter hoogte ineens naar beneden zakte. De reddingswerkers waren juist bezig om de passagiers te bevrijden uit de vastgeslagen gondel."

Ferris Wheel Tivoli in Estonia burning 37 injured

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On the evening of June 14, 1986, after the yellow train (train #1) completed the second inverted loop, it encountered one of three areas of uplift before the third and final loop. Missing bolts on the left inside wheel assembly of the last car of the four car train caused the bogey assembly to disengage the track with a full load of riders. This caused the final car to fishtail wildly, disengaging the lap bars as it collided with support structures, thereby throwing off passengers and losing speed. The train entered the third and final inverted loop, but did not have the speed to complete the loop. The train stalled at the top, then slid backwards, crashing into a concrete pillar. Three people were killed during the accident and a fourth man was severely injured.

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Een 13-jarig meisje is bij een rit op een populaire pretparkattractie haar voeten kwijtgeraakt. Het ongeval gebeurde in Six Flags in de Amerikaanse staat Kentucky, in de Superman Tower of Power. Dat maakte een woordvoerder van het pretpark bekend.

De attractie tilt zijn passagiers eerst 54 meter op, om ze daarna 47 meter naar beneden te laten ?vallen? aan 87 kilometer per uur. Het is niet duidelijk op welk punt van de rit het meisje gewond raakte, maar een loshangende kabel zou de voeten van het meisje boven de enkel hebben afgehakt.

De Superman Tower of Power is een van de meest populaire attracties van het park. Hij werd geopend in 1995, toen nog onder de naam Hellevator. De attractie blijft voor onbepaalde tijd gesloten zodat kan onderzocht worden wat er precies misliep.

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Op zondag 28 februari 2010 23:05 schreef Tommy.Cooper het volgende:
je foto's van de looping slide doen het niet

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Op zondag 28 februari 2010 23:09 schreef Tommy.Cooper het volgende:

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sorry, was niet als beschuldiging bedoeld