even the most avid thrill-seekers might start to question how safe rides are when an accident happens. Several amusement park and state fair accidents have made headlines just this summer ...
Visitors have absolute trust that the engineering of the rides guarantees their safety ... despite efforts to keep various scandals and accidents quiet, amusement parks all over the world have ...
An amusement park ride collapsed at a bustling Christmas fair ... dispatched investigators to the fair moments after the accident. They discovered that the tower was not anchored properly to ...
More than 290 million people visited theme parks in the U.S. in 2010, enjoying 1.7 billion rides. For all the fear ... of the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions says.
Nevertheless, despite the publicity surrounding such accidents, the injury rates for children’s buggies, golf carts and folding lawn chairs are all higher than those of amusement park rides ...
"They operated the most iconic amusement park in the country ... shut down for six weeks after the accident in 2016, during which it demolished the ride. The company has reported operating ...
The motorcyclists were crying for help. On January 16, customers were hanging upside down after the amusement ride unexpectedly came to a halt owing to battery troubles. An official from the ...
FUJIYOSHIDA, Yamanashi Prefecture—After causing a string of injuries and being forced to suspend operations for two and a half years, a popular looping roller coaster at an amusement park near ...
Louis area when he went with friends to the downtown amusement park. They rode the Orlando ... The state ordered the ride closed after the accident and it never reopened. It is now being demolished.
According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), at one US amusement park the plummeting rides activated the phones ... emergency services to a fatal accident in Nebraska. Google's Pixel phone already ...