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air strapped inside a seat doing the
loop-de-loop or being tossed around by a
machine over the edge of a skyscraper
your adrenaline is pumping
you might even throw up but it's likely
you don't really think you're in a
life-or-death situation nonetheless
somewhere in the back of your mind you
do know there is the smallest chance
that this ride might malfunction your
harness might break the wheels might
come off and as you hurdle towards the
ground you really regret having cut the
line some people actually do have
something called rollercoaster phobia
and while we often associate phobias
with irrational fears tell us if you
still agree with that after watching
this welcome to this episode of the
infographic show the worst amusement
park ride disasters in history death in
the water let's start with something
recent just to show you that while theme
park disasters are not common they do
happen year by year this one was in 2016
on a ride called thunder river rapids
which was part of the fun at australia's
dreamworld theme park
according to recent media reports the
park only dismantled the ride in 2018
but was immediately closed after the
tragedy two men and two women were
killed when rafts hit each other two of
the riders were instantly crushed to
death and two others died the Daily Mail
tells us the theme park has been beset
with problems with other rides
malfunctioning in recent times
apparently dreamworld is not as popular
with Aziz as it used to be to boldly go
we now head over to China and the Eco
venture valley amusement park in
Shenzhen the ride was called space
journey and it was supposed to give its
thrill-seekers a simulation of what it's
like to take off in a rocket when the
disaster happened in 2010 The Wall
Street Journal told us under a dome 24
metres in diameter built to suggest the
vast expanse of the universe space
journeys 40 some passengers spin and Bob
in four person carts no one really knows
what happened but I witnesses said they
smelled burning others say there was a
power outage whatever happened
scores of people were flung 50 feet from
their 4 man cabins to the floor six of
them died and 10 others were injured the
classic ride let's now go back in time
to 1930 and talk about the classic theme
park ride we all know called the big
that year four people lost their lives
when the brakes failed on the ride and a
bunch of cars just fell 35 feet to the
ground
this happened at Nebraska's Krug Park 17
others were also injured and it said
after this event the park wasn't exactly
popular it had to close down a decade
later never go back we're including this
disaster not because of the number of
people killed but because of the
unfortunate way it happened and how it
ended like something from the movie
franchise final destination the death
was of just one teenager in 2008 and it
happened at Six Flags Over Georgia
amusement park near Atlanta the 17 year
old had just written the Batman roller
coaster and had survived it in one piece
except for the Hat he lost while on the
ride he liked that hat it seems and
scaled two fences to retrieve it but the
ride hadn't stopped and he was in a very
dangerous place the young man was struck
by the carriage moving at 50 miles per
hour and it took his head right off
in 2002 a man was killed while also in a
restricted area
under the same ride he collided with a
rider's foot and died and at the same
park someone had both like severed in
2007 while on the Superman tower of
power ride there seems to be a theme
here it happens inside to the Mindbender
ride situated inside galaxy land in West
Edmonton Mall in Alberta Canada
was said to be the largest indoor roller
coaster ride in the world in fact it
still is and to this day it is still
running it has three loops and in 1986
one of the cars did the first two loops
and then went off the rails on the third
that car held four people three of them
died after plunging to the floor 25 feet
down below and the other was critically
injured another 19 people suffered less
serious injuries the ride reopened just
over six months later after being
redesigned it was bad design and some
loose bolts that were to blame as well
as shabby maintenance the man that
survived in the four-man carriage later
told Canadian media that the disaster
had changed him forever
David Tony and Cindy are dead I think
about it every day
he said the ride changed his body to his
injuries included shattered legs are
crushed shoulder broken back pelvis ribs
and feet he spent the 90s and 2000's
taking strong painkillers but had
recently changed to medical marijuana oh
we should add that the mine vendor
marketed itself as the world's
safest rollercoaster they are all safe
until they're not the scariest haunted
house this tragedy is a little different
as it doesn't involve a fast moving
roller coaster it happened that the
haunted castle located at Six Flags
Great Adventure amusement park in New
Jersey USA on May 11th 1984 a fire raged
through the house of horrors while
people were still inside a group of nine
had gone in together and were trapped in
the worst spot eight of them died from
smoke inhalation and a girl managed to
get out there were 29 people in the
house during the fire but most escaped
it seemed the fire might have started at
a display called The Hunchback when
firefighters found the charred bodies
they thought they were mannequins to
park executives were charged with
manslaughter and out of court
settlements of 2.5 million dollars were
handed to seven families one family went
through the courts and got $750,000
suffer little children this has been
called the worst roller coaster disaster
in history but that is debatable the
fact that all five people killed were
kids makes it all the more sad it
happened in 1972 at England's Battersea
Park Fun Fair the ride was again a Big
Dipper an old wooden and metal
contraption that had been thrilling
folks for two decades before that
fateful day the carts were being pulled
up to the crest of the ride but before
they could get there the rope snapped
but carts went down and hit the others
like dominoes 13 others were injured the
ride was closed and the theme park did
the same two years later one of the
survivors told the British press 43
years later what it was like she had
been sat next to another little girl one
of the dead people were groaning and
hanging over the edge it was awful I
looked up and next to the carriage
people were hanging out over the tracks
there was blood everywhere
said the woman she suffers from PTSD
today she also said it took years for
her to be diagnosed and it took a
nervous breakdown in 2005 for her to
receive help she told the press that
after the disaster with the memory of
blood and severed limbs and also a girl
slipping from her grip as she tried to
stop her from falling there British
authorities told her to have a cup of
tea and get on with it you can check out
statistics regarding amusement park
injuries and deaths each year just in
the USA and there are plenty the
International Association of amusement
parks and attractions tells us there are
over a thousand injuries sustained on
rides at parks in any given year with
the death toll being three
or for a year on average and that's just
the USA you know what we've realized
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on these rides have you ever come close
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