in July a fifteen year old girl named summer Salim was disallowed Teixeira
carts on the ferris wheel with her mother
Salim who had Down syndrome pleaded with park employees along with her mother
despite neither of them knowing much English in the end the employees retain
that saline was too large to sit with her mother and the two women were
separated and entered different cards alone as the ride ascended saline
somehow managed to climb out of her seat and fall twenty feet to the earth below
the young woman died from her injuries and an investigation took place soon
after they discovered that Celine had not been seeded improperly because the
safety bar was still locked while questions arose as to just how the young
woman managed to squirm out of her seat gulliver's World theme park was fined
for having split up the women in the first place
action park in new jersey was at one time completely synonymous with injury
and death
having enacted laughable safety measures and generally being staffed with
underage teenage burnouts looking for summer jobs the rides were complete
shams including the miserable performance of the cannonball to a water
slide with a full loop at the end that worked approximately 15 percent of the
time and was the cause of numerous abrasions concussions and near
suffocation action park from its opening in 1978 to its embarrassing closed in
1996 was the site of six deaths three of which were drownings one was an
electrocution one at no fault of the part and one heart attack brought on by
the shock of ice cold water under a rope swing in 1999 the park was reopened and
renamed Mountain Creek with new safety regulations and fewer accidents and a
Six Flags in Atlanta Georgia in 2008 a young man named Asia Ferguson lost his
hat after the wind-whipped away while he rode batman the ride once the roller
coaster had ended
Ferguson looked for his head through the safety of offense until he found it
sitting under the bars and beams of the ride
ignoring the multiple do not enter signs posted all over the roller coasters
frame Ferguson scaled the fence and climbed over racing toward his head as
the ride went on its next turn
Ferguson would never reach his had however as the front counter the coaster
barreled toward him at fifty miles an hour
striking him so quickly and with so much force the 17 year old was instantly
decapitated in front of park guests
the Big Dipper roller coaster was a primary attraction to the Battersea fun
fair in London England when it opened up in 1951 boasting an incredible size and
seemingly death-defying speeds sadly the coaster with live up to that promise in
1972 twenty years after its opening as the train cars ascended their first hill
a cable broke loose and one of the card snapped away from the rest of them
tracking back down the hill at an untamed speed the car slammed into five
children at the docking station killing them almost instantly and injuring
another large group of kids and adults the incident would be the final breath
of the Battersea fun fair as it closed down just two years later due to low
attendance and the public's an arrangement at the horrible accident
that claimed five young lives and another six flags park this time in New
Jersey a haunted castle walkthrough attraction was the site of another
horrific loss on may eleventh nineteen eighty-four as park goers wandered
around the ride looking for cheap scares the attraction caught fire the flames
quickly spread and we're not dealt with immediately due to the rides lack of
sprinklers and smoke detectors as patrons race to the nearest exits
covering their mouths to escape the smoke however a teenagers were not as
lucky as they became trapped and lost in the rides walls and were burned beyond
recognition
the part came under heavy scrutiny due to the horrible safety measures taken
and was unsurprisingly sued Six Flags managed to get out of the lawsuit
however under the loophole that the building was deemed a temporary
structure and the fire was mostly attributed not to a technical mishap but
an act of arson