Guests at an amusement park in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, got stuck upside down on a ride for nearly 30 minutes on Sept. 23. Maintenance staff brought the ride down at 11:05 p.m. ET. after it inverted at 10:40 p.m. Jiashira Rivera, who uploaded videos showing the incident to social media, told Reuters in a written […]
SANDUSKY, Ohio—An amusement park in Ohio announced Tuesday it would be permanently closing the world’s second-tallest roller coaster. The decision by Cedar Point comes a year after a small metal object flew off the 420-foot tall Top Thrill Dragster coaster and struck a woman in the head at the park in Sandusky. A state investigation […]
COPENHAGEN—A 14-year-old girl died Thursday at a popular amusement park in northern Denmark, police said, reportedly when the rear part of a roller-coaster ride came off the rails. A 13-year-old boy suffered injuries to one hand, police said. Henrik Ragborg Olsen, manager of the Tivoli Friheden amusement park in Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city, told local […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—A young girl who was pulled from a pool at a popular Kansas City water park last week has died, the park’s owner said Tuesday. Oceans of Fun employees pulled the girl from the Coconut Cove pool on July 5 after she was seen to be in distress, according to a statement from […]
Sensors on a Florida amusement park ride had been adjusted manually to double the size of the opening for restraints on two seats, resulting in a 14-year-old boy not being properly secured before he slipped out and fell to his death, according to an initial report released Monday by outside engineers. The average opening for […]
Attorney Ben Crump said Tuesday that the video of a 14-year-old boy falling to his death at a Florida amusement park is one of the worst he’s ever seen. Tyre Sampson died in March after falling from the FreeFall drop tower ride at Orlando’s ICON Park. The FreeFall takes riders up and then drops them […]
The seat of a teen who fell to his death from an amusement park ride in Florida last week was still locked, according to an accident report from the state. Tyre Sampson, 14, fell Thursday from the FreeFall drop tower that takes riders up 430 feet and then drops at speeds of up to 75 […]
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—A rising middle school football player in Missouri, only 14 but already 6 feet, 5 inches tall and well over 300 pounds, Tyre Sampson fell to his death from a towering Florida amusement ride. Lawyers for his family want to know if negligence about his size, or other factors, played a role. “This […]
ORLANDO, Fla.—A 14-year-old boy fell to his death late at night from a free-fall amusement park ride that is taller than the Statue of Liberty along a busy street in the heart of Orlando’s tourist district. Sheriff’s officials and emergency crews responded to a call late Thursday at Icon Park, which is located in the […]
DENVER—On her family’s first trip since the pandemic began, 6-year-old Wongel Estifanos got on a vertical drop ride at a Colorado amusement park with her uncle, aunt, and cousins last month. When the floor pulled away from beneath them, everyone else fell in their seats down a 110-foot underground shaft. But Wongel, who was not […]
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo.—An investigation is underway after a 6-year-old girl on vacation with her family died at an amusement park in the western Colorado town of Glenwood Springs. Few details have been released, but Suzanne Emery with the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park says “an incident” occurred Sunday evening on the Haunted Mine Drop ride that […]
A fight involving 300 youth broke out at an amusement park in Kansas City on Saturday, April 20. Cell phone video taken at the scene shows officers and deputies trying to keep the crowd back, a difficult task as fights seemed to break out all around the area. The brawl started near the Camp Snoopy […]
These riders thought that a dangerous ride would be a lot of fun. But now they are stuck at the top, as they wait for instructions from emergency personnel. Firefighters have arrived, and are actively pulling people to safety. They are wearing harnesses, so that any falls won’t be fatal. Roller coaster rides don’t always […]
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The family of a 10-year-old boy who died on a giant waterslide at a Kansas water park will receive nearly $20 million in settlement payments, according to court documents. The largest payment to Caleb Schwab’s family, $14 million, will come from SVV 1 and KC Water Park, two companies associated […]
Little Sun Light Swarm, a series of lights designed by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, change color as you pass by it. The material he used is dichromatic glass, it reflects color, shifting the color you see according to the angle you look at it. The 33 lamps are designed for Copenhagen’s Tivoli, which is one […]
