Those who called it a "misadventure" should have experienced their own because that's beyond negligence and is downright criminal behavior... imagine if we took that lax attitude towards everything. "Oh ho ho ho you suffered broken legs because you took the elevator and the cable snapped? Well you were adventurous and should have taken the stairs!".
It should never have been classed as misadventure, the worst thing that should have happened is that you're either not tall enough or the phone in your pocket went stray. This is absolutely disgusting. I'm English, there has been some tragedies since and misadventure is not one of them.
Yeah except in that elevator, none of the buttons work, everyone complains about it being broken, it makes really bad noises, and the passengers who just got off were in pain. Would you still get on that elevator with your child and expect to be safe? Or would you take the stairs? You can't blame everyone else for not having common sense. That would be your fault for not being smarter and part of evolution. Thank you Charles Darwin.
@@harrypenn611 the world over there's so much corruption involving amusement parks. It's abysmal and proves how little the average person's life is worth.
When I was a child I used to love going to Lightwater with my parents but looking back we always came away bruised from how aggressive the rides were and how the bars/restraints always seemed too loose. This ride and The Ultimate were the absolute worst for feeling unsafe but you never assume something so awful would happen.
Imagine how absolutely furious you would be if your child died to this death trap and no one was held accountable and they essentially said it was her own fault for getting on it, and then the thing continues to operating injuring more people and putting more lives at risk until they finally decide that yes, it IS their responsibility to make sure their ride doesn't murder people.
I mean, I've been down the youtube rabbit hole on roller coaster accidents for the past 5 hours and I can say that at this point that only a tiny amount of these videos ends with the family members getting anything from the parks. A pretty terrifyingly small amount really.
because they make the law to protect people like business owners, not working class people. Then all they have to say is "iT wAs HeR oWn ChOiCe To rIDe iT, sHe ShOuLd HaVe EvAlUaTeD TEH rIsK bEtTEr"
Death is NOT expected risk of boarding a rollercoaster. 'Misadventure' is a totally unacceptable ruling for this case, and the coroner who declared it as such should have been sacked.
These are exactly the words I was going to write in a comment. The point of these "scary" rides is to feel as if you were doing something dangerous, not to be in danger. It's the simulation of risk, not actual risk. We don't go on these rides thinking we're taking a wild gamble at getting hurt. Of course there is a chance of injury like there is a chance of injury when doing anything like riding on a plane, driving a car, or walking down the street. But it cannot be compared to doing risky things like spelunking or cliff jumping and that the court would try to do so is disgraceful
I'm so heart broken for the young woman who went on and died from her injuries. How dare the park really not claim responsibility when it was 100 percent their fault. I cant imagine being stuck on a coaster that is supposed to be safe. 30mph is a decent speed, but not super fast. The fact that it was both a mechanic and human failure when it could have been prevented speaks volumes. RIP to Gemma. And that poor boy who fell.. He probably has brain injuries from that accident. Hitting the pavement at that height is terrifying.
Went on this as a kid and had really bad whiplash that lasted about two weeks saddened that I never knew people lost their lives on this same awful ride.
Clearly the first tragedy was unintentional homicide. The second reminds of a ride I went on only a couple of months ago where I was screaming at the operator to make sure all her passengers in the swing ride were safely secured as well as myself as the little girl behind me was struggling with the harness while he was making her way back to start the ride. Reluctantly she came back to help the little girl while I somehow managed to work out the complex harness which consisted of a lap belt, a bar that you had to reach up to pull down over your head to your waist and some other contraption. In any event, an impossible task for a child to work out. No one expects to be injured or worse on an amusement ride and nor should they. The inadequate fines obviously never compelled the company to improve their safety procedures. Instead, the interpretation of the law told the victims' families that profits are far more important than people's lives.
when my sister was around 7/8 years old a ride operator failed to buckle her seat on the swings! she was sat behind me and I didn’t realize till mid ride (I was like 10) and had to try and buckle it mid ride. She was terrified of the swings for years after.
My brother and I went on a ride at our school fair which was themed as an octopus that swung you around, with two sets of two person pods with a bar across your lap. it was at an angle, so you were close to the ground at the front and by my fuzzy memory, about 3 meters off the ground at the back? so to load it up, you slowly rotated around and at the back you head was angled at the ground. my brother was a tiny 6 year old who was cleared to get on so we were in one pod together, and it was fine until we reached the top and he started slipping. I'm normally pretty quiet in public but I immediately started screaming at the guy loading people on to please get us off, my brother is slipping out and thank god my voice carries really well and he was willing to listen because he immediately rotated the ride to let us off. I cannot say for certain whether my brother would have actually fallen out, and once the ride started the centrifugal force probably would have kept him inside but I was only 10 and panicking as I desperately tried to hold my brother in place and I don't regret getting us off the ride.
My husband, my son, and I went to a park and rode the biggest coasters to the smallest, some 3 to 4 times. This one, which was mouse-themed and deemed "for children," we only rode once, and it was easily the most terrifying, most painful, and least fun of them all. When the ride ended, we three agreed in perfect unison...NEVER AGAIN. I still can't believe they call this a kid's ride!!
There is a ride in Blackpool (northern England) called "cat and mouse" 2 ppl sit tandem, in a minecart type vehicle. Its a kids ride. But the turns are very fast and sharp and it proper throws you about. Its a scary ride tbh. At no point do you feel safe but thats why i love it. Its crazy how there hasnt been any accidents on this ride. Reading your comment made me think about that ride.
My dad took me to Blackpool when I was little and we rode that cat and mouse ride too. I was a kid but it still felt so cramped and the turns were so sharp i cried when I got off because it was traumatic. Idk how my dad felt safe cos at the time I felt like if I didn't keep my body tucked in tight I'd easily hit something like my arms at the turns.
"found that not all operators understood the seatbelt and height safety limits for young children" That is absolutely messed up on top of everything else like... I'm shocked at the incompetence of these workers, *in 2019* no less
Those fines need to be in the millions. The company got off too easily with the first incident, so they knew they didn't need to do anything to actually fix up the ride. Hold a heavy ($1 million) fine over their heads and tell them to follow proper safety standards and protocol, or pay the fines.
We rode this the week of the death. When we got in i noticed seatbelts, the lad working came to put the bar down and I said can he check my seat belt (was a lap belt) once I'd done it up. He replied oh don't worry they are not needed on this ride. I still did mine up, but goes to show how the operator was.
Wow this park is near me and I never knew that! I went on that coaster as a teenager and I hated it - the strength of the stops and twists were so jerky that I kept bashing my arms and legs. Sounds like I was lucky to come away from it with just bruises! Absolutely shocking.
"Death by misadventure" and saying "she took the risk" is dogshit. She went on a roller coaster, at a fun park, where she had the right to feel safe the whole time. Not just because the operators should have been trained adequately, or the plan for the ride had to have been approved of in the first place, but the government wouldn't have issued a licence for the ride or company to operate unless it passed independent inspection. If she had been driving 70 over the speed limit and the parents wanted to blame the car manufacturer for building cars that go that fast, that would be different.
Especially since it was a *wiring issue* that was a major cause of the accident. How was that Gemma's fault? How was that a risk she chose to take? It makes me furious when tragedies like this happen and the victim is blamed--after clearly not doing anything wrong. If someone disregards the rules, then yeah, they at least share responsibility. Definitely not in this case.
Misadventure? That's saying it was her fault, that she did something dangerous. Only thing she did was get on the thing in the first place, a ride that was not safe.
Me and my dad went on this, around 2008, it was completely safe however we both thought it felt like the cart was going to fall off the track - it felt *very* dangerous
That’s one of the main gimmicks of wild mouse coasters like this: sharp turns that make you think the train will fly of the tracks. This ride is actually one of dozens of identical ones you can find all over the world, and yeah, they can be kinda sketchy, but most are perfectly safe.
Another GREAT video! Thank you! You'd think (there I go thinking again) after years of parks having similar accidents that they WOULD learn how to design a "safe" ride!! Not sure why it's soooooo difficult to do this, build one that doesn't kill people! Training is a must. Ride operators NEED to pass a test BEFORE ever stepping foot behind the panel of ANY ride!! Here in the U.S. the NTSB or OSHA or however monitors Amusement parks should be focusing more on ride safety then ride "readiness"! Not just the nuts and bolts of a ride, but also the safety of the carriage in which the riders are sitting. Having kids AND adults sit in them and test the belts/harnesses etc....BEFORE a ride is put in place. Until that happens, there will be more videos just....like.....this.....
Here in the US, we DO have an organization that defines training standards and best practices for training, operation and maintenance on amusement rides. IRT (International Ride Training) is the organization, and the test they provide is the IROC (International Ride Operator Certification). Virtually all major parks/park chains in this country abide by these standards, including Six Flags, Cedar Fair, SeaWorld, Disney and more. That's specifically the reason why these major parks RARELY have incidents. Most parks go several years before any news-worthy incidents.
@@TheFringes. Even some part of IROC itself considered as too overkill since some operational procedure that indeed safe were still prohibited, so much so that It impact quite a bit on riders capacity.
A travelling version of this rollarcoaster type appeared at our local fair in the late 1990s. It was only there for a few years and then vanished. I rode it once or twice and didn't particularly like it, though it didn't feel unsafe. But then, travelling rides are inspected for more frequently, at least in Germany, than stationary rides, so accidents and mayor issues are rare. Come to think of it, the Twister coaster disappeared from our local fair around the time of the first accident. I now wonder if the authorities refused to approve it, since this has happened a few times with other rides that had major issues appear elsewhere.
When you have a friend whose little sister is named Gemma, she's around 20 years old, and you haven't heard from him in several years... I had to double check what year this took place in. Okay, it wasn't his sister.
Two accidents on one ride... Other parks: "We need to re-evaluate the ride and improve safety to avoid injuries." Action Park: "Pfft. Those are amateur numbers."
I went on a portable one years ago for a local fair. Wasn't bad but I didn't like how it felt like my friend and I would slip in the seats slightly and sometimes it would spin around too fast.
Yeh that's the mouse ride, what this is sort of based on, I've been on one when I was a kid, I don't think it'd as recklessly unsafe or unenjoyable as this is though
As long as you guys has decent body size and considering those restrain were not malfunction, it's perfectly safe. I can see 2nd accident happen because of those kind of restrain leave a big gap if you fit 2 ppl with really big difference in size. Remind me with those Intamin flat ride accident on Kings Island long ago, or Arrow standup coaster accident. Both dead (not because of 2 ppl different size ofc, but still involving restrain gap)
Yes they should’ve used every restraint available, but since many didn’t work on children, it may not have made a difference. There’s a reason the operators need to make sure height requirements are met.
Looks like a fun ride...scary how even the smaller rides can be deadly. I loved amusement parks as a teenager, and always vowed never to become one of those "boring adults" who refused to get on rides. Well, I got onto a Tilt-a-Whirl with my kids at the state fairgrounds last year...and let's just say, I will never set foot on a "fun ride" ever again! I spent the entire ride feeling like I was about to die, and yelling, "I don't like it, I don't like it, I don't like it," over and over again! I am officially a "boring adult" now at 37 years old!
Went as a kid several times and almost every ride was dodgy and not safe particularly the rat ride, but being a kid I thought it's just how it was until I went to Alton towers and realised just how shady light water valley is, on the black widow which is the feris wheel that spins upside down our side door was just sliding back and forth, on the rat I almost fell out and I was convinced it went past a metal bar just over head height where someone could stand up and be decapitated, can't confirm cos it was in the pitch black but you could feel flying past it, even the toad in the hole which was a much more tame boat drop into water bust my nose open and I was holding on tightly as usual, the place was basically you being assaulted
Its crappy companies like this that really give coasters a bad name. Most coasters are completely safe, and almost all in operation were designed to be safe. Its when companies don't comply with safety and ignore issues and broken things that our safety is put at risk
@@wolfm.7527 Its not just them, in general there is almost always a company doing something wrong that leads to accidents. It is extremely rare that there is a true freak accident with no real fault
Personally I don’t think this was revershons fault entirely. They do deserve so blame but lack of matinanace by the park is the real problem here. The manufacture just builds and sells the coaster, as well as checks from time to time, but it’s up to the park to do what they want with the ride, and some choose to not use proper safety guidelines the manufactures set and this is what happens.
@@HHPYE42 thats what I'm referring to. If they were having a lot of issues, yeah it probably could have been desigmed better, but it was on the park for not properly fixing the issues
I've not been to an amusement park in some 15 years, since childhood, due to two incidents that could have resulted in my brother and I being seriously injured or killed: the first was on an old wooden coaster where the lap bar disengaged right when we were about to go down the major hill. It luckily re-engaged somehow through our frantic jiggling of it and bracing ourselves. The second was on one of those spider sort of rollercoasters where the attendant didn't bother to close our pod at all before starting the coaster and didn't pay attention to our horrified shouts. Luckily, since they were still loading up the ride, we only went as far as being slowly lifted up into the air and stop while more people got on, and while up there, we managed to close the pod shut ourselves. Had the ride been started up in full, we would have just been thrown right out. I've anyways decided based on that to not put my life into the hands of minimum-wage workers who don't give a shit about you just for a cheap thrill on poorly-maintained machines.
I remember going on a similar coaster that went around 45 mph at its highest speed. Even though it was fairly tame in terms of speed and the lay of the track, the sensation caused by the car spinning on its own axis, especially in corners, was quite memorable as no other coaster I have ever been on was like it. edit: I should add, I loved this ride.
@@corbindioxide6253 I went on one at Six Flags New England called Pandemonium. Ended up going on a a few times. The quality certainly varied for each ride. Since being in a different part of the car (or perhaps due to the way they have the cars spin) Gave different sensations for each of them. I remember a couple of those turns making me go "holy hell, is this really actually moving that slow". (also I just checked the top speed when looking for the actual name of the coaster, 31 mph) So I can completely understand why some people would hate it. It was really the novel feeling of that rotating car that made it so fun for me. Other more standard designs, be they wood or metal, all do the same basic things. If you have ridden Big Bad Wolf at Busch Gardens, you have also essentialy ridden Batman the Ride. (Batman is crap in comparison imo it might be more twisty, but by the time Batman came out, the idea of not being in more traditional cars and the various kinds if twists you can have with them had been done to death.. add a little more of this a little more of that, not anything actually _new_ just something that has evolved and familiarity breeds contempt. Batman was still a damn fun ride though) Too bad Big Bad Wolf closed a decade ago. It has been decades since I rode that one and I can still remember how my mother was visibly shaken. Neither of us had ridden a suspended coaster before and this was sometime in the first few years it had been around. That part where you go down a hundred foot drop and then swing out over the water made her totally lose it. When it comes to a new roller coaster (new for me, not necessarily a new construction) what I want is just that, something that is actually, truly a new experience. Even if here said new experience is essentially what happened when someone went "hey, you know those teacup rides for kids... how about we stick one of those on a roller coaster". BTW, if you really want a ride that will kick the crap out of you, if you are ever at Six Flags up here, ride Thunderbolt at least once. It was built the same year the US entered WW2. I adore those old wooden coasters... but damn, the faster ones can be pretty violent. Which is half the fun. At the end of the day, all I want is to have fun with these. One of the greatest ways of accomplishing that, is riding something that moves in a way that is a true departure from its brethren. Regardless of the kind of ride it is. Like this one crazy thing I rode at some random travelling carnival years back. It was essentially an oval ferris wheel, but with fully enclosed places for the riders and the pivot being slightly offset from center, instead of being above the seating, so they could flip 360 as they went around and due to the fact it looked more like an oval than a wheel, they would do this on their own as the whole contraption rotated in the manner of a ferris wheel.
There was a ride like this at the state fair we would go to called something like wild mouse. My brother was around 7 or 8 and went with my dad, and he had to hold him in by his shirt to keep him from flying out of the lap bar, as there was no seatbelt. Absolutely awful what happened to these families.
The twister has had many issues, when I was on it when I went in highschool the right stopped whilst I was on it, now after the announcement of the demolition of the parks signature coaster, light water valley is going to end up closing
I've been to this theme park in 2009/2010 something about the park feels unsafe we got stuck on this ride at the top we ended up some managing to get it moving apparently the ride kept breaking down! Yet they kept it operating! Also the wooden rollercoaster they had was good but looked it would collapse at any time! Also they was swarms of bees all over the park they didn't do anything to try and remove them! Went to this park once and that was enough! They has been quiet alot of incidents at this park.
The lack of safety supercedes the thrill of the ride. Stopped riding coasters years ago. Edit: To those of you hell-bent on comparing roller coasters to necessary risks such as walking and eating, please know that I'm not interested in taking unnecessary risks.
I'll only ride at parks that are certified by NAARSO, AIMS, and IAPPA. I gave up on fairs and carnivals years ago. Never again. If it comes apart regularly, it's garbage and not worth gambling. Things can go wrong anywhere (standing in line for Top Thrill Dragster, for instance) but the likelihood of that is less than it was to drive to the park and get in a wreck. I totally understand people not wanting to put their lives in the hands of amusement park corporations and their often-times poorly trained/overworked/underpaid staff though. Who could argue against that?
"Wild Mouse" coasters were made in the dark ages of Theme Parks. They became phased out when Theme Park industry and technology had a huge surge in 80s/90s Every small independent, budget theme park and end of pier fairground bought them up coz they were so cheap. But with the budgets and age of the machine is usually an afterthought... It's not common knowledge among the general public - when you visit a theme park those rides you see are rarely a new build installation, despite it being a new attraction to that park. They get dismantled when local novelty wanes and other parks buy round the continent buy them, repaint them, give them a new name etc. Instead they are often DECADES old, and have passed through many hands, with thousands and thousands of riders, years of wear and tear. It's scary to think that your Wild Mouse could have been from sat on a beachfront since the 80s with the corrosive salt air getting at it for years... The only protection anyone really has is the degree of care and diligence provided by effective maintenance, but it has its limits...and when protocol fails its catastrophic. One *single* oversight in the chain of design, build-structure, upkeep, crowd management, design operation can be enough for mass casualties and lives ruined through PTSD and bereavement. But coz of that extensive chain of factors it will always leave enough room for those responsible to wriggle out of any culpability. It's inherently unfair. There's absolutely no excuse for safety protocols being breached, and nobody deserves tragedy on an exciting day out, ever.
Ive been to some rollercoaster parks and I gotta say some rides are so violent that if the safety bars failed there is no chance anyone could hold on to the bars... Honestly those safety bars always freaked me out and I could never fully relax while on the rides. Also the people that work in the park are paid low wage, that's probably why accidents happen
It's not the safety bar that was the issue ... What he failed to mention in this video is that the zamperla redesign is safer with the new lap bars as the lap bars are individual to each rider rather than spanning two riders. Seat belts should've been worn but at the end of the day the main restraint needs to be safe for all riders. The young boy was under the height limit, which means he should not have rode at all. That in combination with no seatbelt, a lap bar which may have been secure for an adult rider next to him, not for the child as he's obviously smaller. This combination as well as fucking poor operations by whoever was in charge is what caused this deadly incident. Not the nature of the coaster. The same thing could happen on something 10 foot tall with no curves if they had the same ride system.
plus wages have nothing to do with it lol. doesn't matter if you're being paid 5 pound an hour, theme park jobs are highly sought after so the operator must've wanted it bad enough to fight off other candidates lol. also I'd recommend watching coaster bots video on restraints, it explains it a lot better than I can.
Oh my god, he was awake and alert when help came to pick him up? I really hope he was in shock, because poor baby must've felt so much pain otherwise :(
I'm from England & I never knew this park even existed, let alone the accidents that occurred there. It's a shame that the first accident was considered a "misadventure".
I haven't been to an amusement park in ages, but I've experienced whiplash on one occasion. I am liking these videos from Dark History. I really need to watch all your videos and provide some recommendations on a new video.
I got a face scar from this theme park. I was 4 and walked into a swing shaped as a boat bearing in mind it had no fences or protection at the time of the accident. Also the nail hanging of it ripped my skin off revealing my jaw bone had surgery to fix it but scared for life I never would go back light water valley ever since the incident happened.
Multiple person lap bars on a ride where there are air time and negative Gs are a damn menace. I had 2 fail on me. The first was on one of those splash down rides where it goes up, around a curve, down a hill and into a splash pad. I was 6 years old and seated between my mother and another larger passenger in the front row with a common lap, safety bar. When we hit the bottom with the negative Gs and resistance from the splash pad I slid under the bar and almost into the nose of the car. Thankfully, my mom and other passenger grabbed me before I got hurt from smacking into something riders shouldn't come in contact with. The second time was in a ride that has 2 open sided cars chasing each other around in a vertical circle giving the riders positive and negative Gs. I was seated in the outside edge of the car sharing a lap bar with my mom. When we had negative Gs I lifted off the seat until I was almost standing. This was very problematic because I was also looking over the edge. I'm not going to say I was going to fall out of the ride as it was at its highest point, but I easily could have. Thankfully, my mom realized what was going on, grabbed my arm, pulled me down and used het arm as a shoulder restraint as she gripped the edge of the car. If you're ever going on a ride with just a shared lap bar make sure to go on with someone a similar size to you so it works.
I worked at an amusement park in Amarillo Texas when I was in high school. I've gone to it since I was 5. The family that owns it have very strict standards for ride safety and maintenance and the rides are inspected daily before opening. All operators are taught to run the rides correctly and will be very quickly fired if found to violate the rules. A quick check of records have only 4 major accidents and only one death since 1951. So not all amusement parks are run badly (which is why you get these type of deaths.)
That’s one of the main gimmicks of wild mouse coasters like that: sharp turns that make you think the train is gonna fly off the tracks. That’s never happened on a wild mouse coaster over the nearly 70 years and over a hundred installations (at least that I know of, and I know a lot (not to brag 😏)). Don’t confuse fear with danger on most rides. Statistically you’re more likely to die on the drive TO an amusement park that IN it!
ironically enough the same ride with the same manufacturer existed at disney world at the animal kingdom theme park and it was called "primeval whirl" and thru its operation has 2 deaths their before disney dismantled it in 2021.
I had a rollercoaster at a local themepark with a very similar design and track as that but was renamed and the carts were mice. I rode this so many times and loved this ride and now I know I was at risk of bad injury or worst
I have been on a ride exactly like this one and was horrified of the idea of the car coming off the track. Those super tight turns while spinning just doesn't seem like a good combo.
I went there a few times as a kid but I remember when my mum and sister went on the coaster they said they felt whiplash and I'm pretty sure there was some bruises too but nothing major - safe to say my mum did not go on another ride. A lot of rides there were pretty aggressive even when they're deemed as "Kid friendly".
Im watching the footage of the ride, and getting a serious case of deja vu. Like.. Ive been on the ride, but Ive never been to the UK. And it finally hit me, I have been on this ride, in Disney World Animal Kingdom Primeval Whirl. Its the same ride. The wiki even confirms it was made/provided by Reverchon. Purchased the year after the accident. And the Disney ride.. killed two employees over the course of its existence(per the wiki).
the wiki seems like those employees died from operating/maintaining the ride and accidentally injuring themselves in the process rather than riding the ride itself
I don't know about the UK, but in Germany travelling are inspected every time they are set up in a new location, which means they're generally very safe with few accidents.
@@CoraBuhlert I would expect nothing less in Germany. You folks care about each other. I live in the US, and nothing is inspected here, untill there's an death, or a terrible accident. Hint: Never go to a church fair in the states.
OH MY GOD THAT RIDE WAS IN THE MIAMI DADE WORLD FAIR AND IT WAS REBRANDED AS THE CRAZY MOUSE its literally the exact same ride and it was Terrible because the turns flung every part of your body into the uncomfortable seats at full force which hurts your back and neck
There was a fatal accident on The Mad Mouse at Lagoon Amusement Park here in Utah years ago. The ride was redesigned and opened again with a different name, and another accident. It finally was removed from the park
This is the same ride as the Primeval Whirl that is now defunct at Disney World's Animal Kingdom. It's crazy to think a Kiddie coaster can be so dangerous, but two incidents happened on it as well and is now demolished. I think the smaller coasters aren't given as much attention bc they are considered safer by default.
we had one of those kill a kid in Indiana, during a traveling carnival. Similar ride, but different name and color scheme. I can't remember if it was a city-to-city carnival or state fair as it happened about 20 something years ago.
I remember going on this when i was younger, i loved this ride, last time i went was roughly 2018, then the covid lockdowns hit, and i didnt go after, i never knew about the one in 2001. Me and my sister used to know this ride as the "sugar puff ride" as the trains looks quite like the sugarpuff monster. The black flag was another ride that had some issues in 2018/19
I absolutely hate these rollercoasters for this kind of issue. They terrify me - especially the ones they have on beach piers. They always feel like they’re going to fling off with how sharp they turn.
I think that's normal, even with the ones at established theme parks with these types of rollercoasters, they do that, all of them do, it's a thrill factor, it's done like that on purpose. your aren't actually gonna fall off
If you get on a ride, & there's a seat belt 💺, why should you have to be told to WEAR IT?!? Do you think it's just there for aesthetic reasons?!? Some people just shouldn't have kids.
Years ago my school took us on a trip to lightwater valley I remember feeling sketched out by the rides the pearl was the worst for me as the brace keeping you restrained gave way not fully but enough for me to almost be flung from the ride it was horrifying I'm surprised the park never fully got shut down
This feels like there was some palms being greased when it comes to this thing. On the second one you have to wonder about the mom when she didn't figure out that the safety belts were there for a reason, you shouldn't need to be told to put them on.
I was on a ride nearly identical to this one in 2022, it was built to be transportable and the tracks seemed quite unstable. The ride was in the Basel Herbstmesse, I remember sliding around in my seat and feeling the restraining bar moving up and down from the changing gravity.
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Those who called it a "misadventure" should have experienced their own because that's beyond negligence and is downright criminal behavior... imagine if we took that lax attitude towards everything. "Oh ho ho ho you suffered broken legs because you took the elevator and the cable snapped? Well you were adventurous and should have taken the stairs!".
It should never have been classed as misadventure, the worst thing that should have happened is that you're either not tall enough or the phone in your pocket went stray. This is absolutely disgusting. I'm English, there has been some tragedies since and misadventure is not one of them.
It is a legal term, nothing more. People complain about the term "award" also in the same way when they are awarded money out of a legal court order.
Yea corrupt outcome that , utter shameful ruling
Yeah except in that elevator, none of the buttons work, everyone complains about it being broken, it makes really bad noises, and the passengers who just got off were in pain. Would you still get on that elevator with your child and expect to be safe? Or would you take the stairs? You can't blame everyone else for not having common sense. That would be your fault for not being smarter and part of evolution. Thank you Charles Darwin.
@@harrypenn611 the world over there's so much corruption involving amusement parks. It's abysmal and proves how little the average person's life is worth.
When I was a child I used to love going to Lightwater with my parents but looking back we always came away bruised from how aggressive the rides were and how the bars/restraints always seemed too loose. This ride and The Ultimate were the absolute worst for feeling unsafe but you never assume something so awful would happen.
I went a lot around 2015 and hated both these rides for bruising and feeling unwell. The ultimate is being dismantled at the moment i believe
Imagine how absolutely furious you would be if your child died to this death trap and no one was held accountable and they essentially said it was her own fault for getting on it, and then the thing continues to operating injuring more people and putting more lives at risk until they finally decide that yes, it IS their responsibility to make sure their ride doesn't murder people.
I mean, I've been down the youtube rabbit hole on roller coaster accidents for the past 5 hours and I can say that at this point that only a tiny amount of these videos ends with the family members getting anything from the parks.
A pretty terrifyingly small amount really.
because they make the law to protect people like business owners, not working class people.
Then all they have to say is "iT wAs HeR oWn ChOiCe To rIDe iT, sHe ShOuLd HaVe EvAlUaTeD TEH rIsK bEtTEr"
@@coloradohikertrash9958 yyyyup. Its not just corrupt courts, its systemic, and modt often econonic
@@coloradohikertrash9958 It's pretty bad over here in europe when it comes to accountability
Blood for blood, money would never be enough no matter what amount. I'd die trying to burn ther world down upon the owners
Death is NOT expected risk of boarding a rollercoaster. 'Misadventure' is a totally unacceptable ruling for this case, and the coroner who declared it as such should have been sacked.
These are exactly the words I was going to write in a comment. The point of these "scary" rides is to feel as if you were doing something dangerous, not to be in danger. It's the simulation of risk, not actual risk. We don't go on these rides thinking we're taking a wild gamble at getting hurt. Of course there is a chance of injury like there is a chance of injury when doing anything like riding on a plane, driving a car, or walking down the street. But it cannot be compared to doing risky things like spelunking or cliff jumping and that the court would try to do so is disgraceful
I'm so heart broken for the young woman who went on and died from her injuries. How dare the park really not claim responsibility when it was 100 percent their fault. I cant imagine being stuck on a coaster that is supposed to be safe. 30mph is a decent speed, but not super fast. The fact that it was both a mechanic and human failure when it could have been prevented speaks volumes. RIP to Gemma. And that poor boy who fell.. He probably has brain injuries from that accident. Hitting the pavement at that height is terrifying.
Went on this as a kid and had really bad whiplash that lasted about two weeks saddened that I never knew people lost their lives on this same awful ride.
Damn I’m sorry that happened to you, whiplash is no joke.
Geez. sorry that happened but you got lucky by the sounds of it.
Get an mri my dude
Must be awful to know what you do now. I hope you healed quickly and are healthy nowadays
Sucks to suck doesn’t it
Clearly the first tragedy was unintentional homicide. The second reminds of a ride I went on only a couple of months ago where I was screaming at the operator to make sure all her passengers in the swing ride were safely secured as well as myself as the little girl behind me was struggling with the harness while he was making her way back to start the ride. Reluctantly she came back to help the little girl while I somehow managed to work out the complex harness which consisted of a lap belt, a bar that you had to reach up to pull down over your head to your waist and some other contraption. In any event, an impossible task for a child to work out.
No one expects to be injured or worse on an amusement ride and nor should they.
The inadequate fines obviously never compelled the company to improve their safety procedures. Instead, the interpretation of the law told the victims' families that profits are far more important than people's lives.
As an engineer explained to me, “How safe are amusement rides? As safe as minimum wage gets you.”
when my sister was around 7/8 years old a ride operator failed to buckle her seat on the swings! she was sat behind me and I didn’t realize till mid ride (I was like 10) and had to try and buckle it mid ride. She was terrified of the swings for years after.
My brother and I went on a ride at our school fair which was themed as an octopus that swung you around, with two sets of two person pods with a bar across your lap. it was at an angle, so you were close to the ground at the front and by my fuzzy memory, about 3 meters off the ground at the back? so to load it up, you slowly rotated around and at the back you head was angled at the ground.
my brother was a tiny 6 year old who was cleared to get on so we were in one pod together, and it was fine until we reached the top and he started slipping. I'm normally pretty quiet in public but I immediately started screaming at the guy loading people on to please get us off, my brother is slipping out and thank god my voice carries really well and he was willing to listen because he immediately rotated the ride to let us off.
I cannot say for certain whether my brother would have actually fallen out, and once the ride started the centrifugal force probably would have kept him inside but I was only 10 and panicking as I desperately tried to hold my brother in place and I don't regret getting us off the ride.
My husband, my son, and I went to a park and rode the biggest coasters to the smallest, some 3 to 4 times. This one, which was mouse-themed and deemed "for children," we only rode once, and it was easily the most terrifying, most painful, and least fun of them all. When the ride ended, we three agreed in perfect unison...NEVER AGAIN. I still can't believe they call this a kid's ride!!
There is a ride in Blackpool (northern England) called "cat and mouse" 2 ppl sit tandem, in a minecart type vehicle. Its a kids ride. But the turns are very fast and sharp and it proper throws you about. Its a scary ride tbh. At no point do you feel safe but thats why i love it. Its crazy how there hasnt been any accidents on this ride.
Reading your comment made me think about that ride.
My dad took me to Blackpool when I was little and we rode that cat and mouse ride too. I was a kid but it still felt so cramped and the turns were so sharp i cried when I got off because it was traumatic. Idk how my dad felt safe cos at the time I felt like if I didn't keep my body tucked in tight I'd easily hit something like my arms at the turns.
"found that not all operators understood the seatbelt and height safety limits for young children"
That is absolutely messed up on top of everything else like... I'm shocked at the incompetence of these workers, *in 2019* no less
I bet you they were foreign who didn't know English
0:59 the mom's face in this photo perfectly captures the emotions I would have if I rode this. Just pure trepidation and unease
im shocked, ive never been on a roller coaster where workers didnt double check both seatbelt restraints and the safety bar of each passenger
Those fines need to be in the millions. The company got off too easily with the first incident, so they knew they didn't need to do anything to actually fix up the ride. Hold a heavy ($1 million) fine over their heads and tell them to follow proper safety standards and protocol, or pay the fines.
We rode this the week of the death. When we got in i noticed seatbelts, the lad working came to put the bar down and I said can he check my seat belt (was a lap belt) once I'd done it up. He replied oh don't worry they are not needed on this ride. I still did mine up, but goes to show how the operator was.
Best to use all safety options when available.
I will never understand people, operators or riders, who see that there are seatbelts and think they are not needed.
@@Taladar2003 what are the chances they don’t wear them in cars either?
Wow this park is near me and I never knew that! I went on that coaster as a teenager and I hated it - the strength of the stops and twists were so jerky that I kept bashing my arms and legs. Sounds like I was lucky to come away from it with just bruises! Absolutely shocking.
"Death by misadventure" and saying "she took the risk" is dogshit.
She went on a roller coaster, at a fun park, where she had the right to feel safe the whole time.
Not just because the operators should have been trained adequately, or the plan for the ride had to have been approved of in the first place, but the government wouldn't have issued a licence for the ride or company to operate unless it passed independent inspection.
If she had been driving 70 over the speed limit and the parents wanted to blame the car manufacturer for building cars that go that fast, that would be different.
Especially since it was a *wiring issue* that was a major cause of the accident. How was that Gemma's fault? How was that a risk she chose to take? It makes me furious when tragedies like this happen and the victim is blamed--after clearly not doing anything wrong. If someone disregards the rules, then yeah, they at least share responsibility. Definitely not in this case.
I went on this ride 1 time and it scared the shit out of me.... you could literally slide about in the seat...
Same! First and last time 😂
Thankfully those new version use individual restrain
Misadventure? That's saying it was her fault, that she did something dangerous. Only thing she did was get on the thing in the first place, a ride that was not safe.
Me and my dad went on this, around 2008, it was completely safe however we both thought it felt like the cart was going to fall off the track - it felt *very* dangerous
That’s one of the main gimmicks of wild mouse coasters like this: sharp turns that make you think the train will fly of the tracks. This ride is actually one of dozens of identical ones you can find all over the world, and yeah, they can be kinda sketchy, but most are perfectly safe.
@@alexlents4689 Exactly, that's the point of the ride
Another GREAT video! Thank you!
You'd think (there I go thinking again) after years of parks having similar accidents that they WOULD learn how to design a "safe" ride!! Not sure why it's soooooo difficult to do this, build one that doesn't kill people!
Training is a must. Ride operators NEED to pass a test BEFORE ever stepping foot behind the panel of ANY ride!! Here in the U.S. the NTSB or OSHA or however monitors Amusement parks should be focusing more on ride safety then ride "readiness"! Not just the nuts and bolts of a ride, but also the safety of the carriage in which the riders are sitting. Having kids AND adults sit in them and test the belts/harnesses etc....BEFORE a ride is put in place. Until that happens, there will be more videos just....like.....this.....
Here in the US, we DO have an organization that defines training standards and best practices for training, operation and maintenance on amusement rides. IRT (International Ride Training) is the organization, and the test they provide is the IROC (International Ride Operator Certification). Virtually all major parks/park chains in this country abide by these standards, including Six Flags, Cedar Fair, SeaWorld, Disney and more. That's specifically the reason why these major parks RARELY have incidents. Most parks go several years before any news-worthy incidents.
@@TheFringes. Even some part of IROC itself considered as too overkill since some operational procedure that indeed safe were still prohibited, so much so that It impact quite a bit on riders capacity.
The thing is, the ride is safe.
A travelling version of this rollarcoaster type appeared at our local fair in the late 1990s. It was only there for a few years and then vanished. I rode it once or twice and didn't particularly like it, though it didn't feel unsafe. But then, travelling rides are inspected for more frequently, at least in Germany, than stationary rides, so accidents and mayor issues are rare.
Come to think of it, the Twister coaster disappeared from our local fair around the time of the first accident. I now wonder if the authorities refused to approve it, since this has happened a few times with other rides that had major issues appear elsewhere.
Are you talking about 2001 or 2019?
@@nickkerr5714 2001. That ride was long gone by 2019.
@@CoraBuhlert these portable ones were still long in operation after 2001 in the Netherlands, atleast till 2014/15.
When you have a friend whose little sister is named Gemma, she's around 20 years old, and you haven't heard from him in several years... I had to double check what year this took place in. Okay, it wasn't his sister.
Two accidents on one ride...
Other parks: "We need to re-evaluate the ride and improve safety to avoid injuries."
Action Park: "Pfft. Those are amateur numbers."
I went on a portable one years ago for a local fair. Wasn't bad but I didn't like how it felt like my friend and I would slip in the seats slightly and sometimes it would spin around too fast.
Yeh that's the mouse ride, what this is sort of based on, I've been on one when I was a kid, I don't think it'd as recklessly unsafe or unenjoyable as this is though
As long as you guys has decent body size and considering those restrain were not malfunction, it's perfectly safe.
I can see 2nd accident happen because of those kind of restrain leave a big gap if you fit 2 ppl with really big difference in size. Remind me with those Intamin flat ride accident on Kings Island long ago, or Arrow standup coaster accident. Both dead (not because of 2 ppl different size ofc, but still involving restrain gap)
"We weren't told to wear a restraint..." Why do you think they are there?
Yes they should’ve used every restraint available, but since many didn’t work on children, it may not have made a difference. There’s a reason the operators need to make sure height requirements are met.
Well you are right, they are there for a reason,but it is a ride operators job to always check the restraints and seatbelts before
I'm glad you've put subtitles on 05:54 thank you 💕
Looks like a fun ride...scary how even the smaller rides can be deadly. I loved amusement parks as a teenager, and always vowed never to become one of those "boring adults" who refused to get on rides. Well, I got onto a Tilt-a-Whirl with my kids at the state fairgrounds last year...and let's just say, I will never set foot on a "fun ride" ever again! I spent the entire ride feeling like I was about to die, and yelling, "I don't like it, I don't like it, I don't like it," over and over again! I am officially a "boring adult" now at 37 years old!
I remember seeing the 2nd incident on the news. Amazing that the kid survived.
Went as a kid several times and almost every ride was dodgy and not safe particularly the rat ride, but being a kid I thought it's just how it was until I went to Alton towers and realised just how shady light water valley is, on the black widow which is the feris wheel that spins upside down our side door was just sliding back and forth, on the rat I almost fell out and I was convinced it went past a metal bar just over head height where someone could stand up and be decapitated, can't confirm cos it was in the pitch black but you could feel flying past it, even the toad in the hole which was a much more tame boat drop into water bust my nose open and I was holding on tightly as usual, the place was basically you being assaulted
Accidents on rides are still quite rare, you weren't in danger on an Enterprise.
Its crappy companies like this that really give coasters a bad name. Most coasters are completely safe, and almost all in operation were designed to be safe. Its when companies don't comply with safety and ignore issues and broken things that our safety is put at risk
its the french >0
@@wolfm.7527 Its not just them, in general there is almost always a company doing something wrong that leads to accidents. It is extremely rare that there is a true freak accident with no real fault
Companies make cheap choices that are better on their wallet rather than caring about their customers
Personally I don’t think this was revershons fault entirely. They do deserve so blame but lack of matinanace by the park is the real problem here. The manufacture just builds and sells the coaster, as well as checks from time to time, but it’s up to the park to do what they want with the ride, and some choose to not use proper safety guidelines the manufactures set and this is what happens.
@@HHPYE42 thats what I'm referring to. If they were having a lot of issues, yeah it probably could have been desigmed better, but it was on the park for not properly fixing the issues
I've not been to an amusement park in some 15 years, since childhood, due to two incidents that could have resulted in my brother and I being seriously injured or killed: the first was on an old wooden coaster where the lap bar disengaged right when we were about to go down the major hill. It luckily re-engaged somehow through our frantic jiggling of it and bracing ourselves. The second was on one of those spider sort of rollercoasters where the attendant didn't bother to close our pod at all before starting the coaster and didn't pay attention to our horrified shouts. Luckily, since they were still loading up the ride, we only went as far as being slowly lifted up into the air and stop while more people got on, and while up there, we managed to close the pod shut ourselves. Had the ride been started up in full, we would have just been thrown right out. I've anyways decided based on that to not put my life into the hands of minimum-wage workers who don't give a shit about you just for a cheap thrill on poorly-maintained machines.
I remember going on a similar coaster that went around 45 mph at its highest speed. Even though it was fairly tame in terms of speed and the lay of the track, the sensation caused by the car spinning on its own axis, especially in corners, was quite memorable as no other coaster I have ever been on was like it.
edit: I should add, I loved this ride.
Man…. I went on one once and it was so jerky, I said “Never again!” 😂
@@corbindioxide6253 I went on one at Six Flags New England called Pandemonium. Ended up going on a a few times. The quality certainly varied for each ride. Since being in a different part of the car (or perhaps due to the way they have the cars spin) Gave different sensations for each of them. I remember a couple of those turns making me go "holy hell, is this really actually moving that slow". (also I just checked the top speed when looking for the actual name of the coaster, 31 mph)
So I can completely understand why some people would hate it.
It was really the novel feeling of that rotating car that made it so fun for me. Other more standard designs, be they wood or metal, all do the same basic things. If you have ridden Big Bad Wolf at Busch Gardens, you have also essentialy ridden Batman the Ride. (Batman is crap in comparison imo it might be more twisty, but by the time Batman came out, the idea of not being in more traditional cars and the various kinds if twists you can have with them had been done to death.. add a little more of this a little more of that, not anything actually _new_ just something that has evolved and familiarity breeds contempt. Batman was still a damn fun ride though) Too bad Big Bad Wolf closed a decade ago. It has been decades since I rode that one and I can still remember how my mother was visibly shaken. Neither of us had ridden a suspended coaster before and this was sometime in the first few years it had been around. That part where you go down a hundred foot drop and then swing out over the water made her totally lose it.
When it comes to a new roller coaster (new for me, not necessarily a new construction) what I want is just that, something that is actually, truly a new experience. Even if here said new experience is essentially what happened when someone went "hey, you know those teacup rides for kids... how about we stick one of those on a roller coaster".
BTW, if you really want a ride that will kick the crap out of you, if you are ever at Six Flags up here, ride Thunderbolt at least once. It was built the same year the US entered WW2. I adore those old wooden coasters... but damn, the faster ones can be pretty violent. Which is half the fun.
At the end of the day, all I want is to have fun with these. One of the greatest ways of accomplishing that, is riding something that moves in a way that is a true departure from its brethren. Regardless of the kind of ride it is. Like this one crazy thing I rode at some random travelling carnival years back. It was essentially an oval ferris wheel, but with fully enclosed places for the riders and the pivot being slightly offset from center, instead of being above the seating, so they could flip 360 as they went around and due to the fact it looked more like an oval than a wheel, they would do this on their own as the whole contraption rotated in the manner of a ferris wheel.
I really enjoyed your posts. Rides don't agree with my tummy, though. Lucky you!
There was a ride like this at the state fair we would go to called something like wild mouse. My brother was around 7 or 8 and went with my dad, and he had to hold him in by his shirt to keep him from flying out of the lap bar, as there was no seatbelt. Absolutely awful what happened to these families.
Same. I had to hold my daughter down because she begun to lift during the turns and dips.
3:14 El Toro Ryans explanation is engraved in my head😭😭
No one:
No one at all:
Not a single soul:
Dark History: "Riding the roller coaster was fun... *until it wasn't...* "
The twister has had many issues, when I was on it when I went in highschool the right stopped whilst I was on it, now after the announcement of the demolition of the parks signature coaster, light water valley is going to end up closing
I've been to this theme park in 2009/2010 something about the park feels unsafe we got stuck on this ride at the top we ended up some managing to get it moving apparently the ride kept breaking down! Yet they kept it operating! Also the wooden rollercoaster they had was good but looked it would collapse at any time! Also they was swarms of bees all over the park they didn't do anything to try and remove them! Went to this park once and that was enough! They has been quiet alot of incidents at this park.
This is another reason why I hate going on coasters or any other theme park attractions too extreme, first one being my fear of heights
The lack of safety supercedes the thrill of the ride. Stopped riding coasters years ago.
Edit: To those of you hell-bent on comparing roller coasters to necessary risks such as walking and eating, please know that I'm not interested in taking unnecessary risks.
most coasters are well maintained this is a rare ocurrance but at the end of the day its your choice
@@thediamondkneeplate6981 Yes, it is. I'm not a gambling woman.
@@TeeKing me neither
@@a1phamalestud User name checks out 😆
I'll only ride at parks that are certified by NAARSO, AIMS, and IAPPA. I gave up on fairs and carnivals years ago. Never again. If it comes apart regularly, it's garbage and not worth gambling. Things can go wrong anywhere (standing in line for Top Thrill Dragster, for instance) but the likelihood of that is less than it was to drive to the park and get in a wreck. I totally understand people not wanting to put their lives in the hands of amusement park corporations and their often-times poorly trained/overworked/underpaid staff though. Who could argue against that?
Went on this kind of ride as a kid but it was called Mouse Trap. those damn corners were so painful. didnt know anyone lost their lives from it.
Yes 😩 so scary
I have such fond memories of light water valley as a kid. It’s really sad to learn how dangerous and negligent they were.
Thank you for your hard work to educate us.
"Wild Mouse" coasters were made in the dark ages of Theme Parks.
They became phased out when Theme Park industry and technology had a huge surge in 80s/90s
Every small independent, budget theme park and end of pier fairground bought them up coz they were so cheap.
But with the budgets and age of the machine is usually an afterthought...
It's not common knowledge among the general public - when you visit a theme park those rides you see are rarely a new build installation, despite it being a new attraction to that park.
They get dismantled when local novelty wanes and other parks buy round the continent buy them, repaint them, give them a new name etc.
Instead they are often DECADES old, and have passed through many hands, with thousands and thousands of riders, years of wear and tear.
It's scary to think that your Wild Mouse could have been from sat on a beachfront since the 80s with the corrosive salt air getting at it for years...
The only protection anyone really has is the degree of care and diligence provided by effective maintenance, but it has its limits...and when protocol fails its catastrophic.
One *single* oversight in the chain of design, build-structure, upkeep, crowd management, design operation can be enough for mass casualties and lives ruined through PTSD and bereavement.
But coz of that extensive chain of factors it will always leave enough room for those responsible to wriggle out of any culpability. It's inherently unfair.
There's absolutely no excuse for safety protocols being breached, and nobody deserves tragedy on an exciting day out, ever.
Thank you so much for this video!
Ive been to some rollercoaster parks and I gotta say some rides are so violent that if the safety bars failed there is no chance anyone could hold on to the bars... Honestly those safety bars always freaked me out and I could never fully relax while on the rides. Also the people that work in the park are paid low wage, that's probably why accidents happen
It's not the safety bar that was the issue ... What he failed to mention in this video is that the zamperla redesign is safer with the new lap bars as the lap bars are individual to each rider rather than spanning two riders. Seat belts should've been worn but at the end of the day the main restraint needs to be safe for all riders. The young boy was under the height limit, which means he should not have rode at all. That in combination with no seatbelt, a lap bar which may have been secure for an adult rider next to him, not for the child as he's obviously smaller. This combination as well as fucking poor operations by whoever was in charge is what caused this deadly incident. Not the nature of the coaster. The same thing could happen on something 10 foot tall with no curves if they had the same ride system.
plus wages have nothing to do with it lol. doesn't matter if you're being paid 5 pound an hour, theme park jobs are highly sought after so the operator must've wanted it bad enough to fight off other candidates lol. also I'd recommend watching coaster bots video on restraints, it explains it a lot better than I can.
Oh my god, he was awake and alert when help came to pick him up? I really hope he was in shock, because poor baby must've felt so much pain otherwise :(
I've been on a duplicate spinning wild mouse coaster, it was rough as hell but was fun
You make amazing content!
Nice vid Dark History. Those poor people.
I'm from England & I never knew this park even existed, let alone the accidents that occurred there.
It's a shame that the first accident was considered a "misadventure".
I haven't been to an amusement park in ages, but I've experienced whiplash on one occasion. I am liking these videos from Dark History. I really need to watch all your videos and provide some recommendations on a new video.
Omg tragic story but fascinating as well
It is reassuring to hear that they renamed the ride. (4:52)
I got a face scar from this theme park. I was 4 and walked into a swing shaped as a boat bearing in mind it had no fences or protection at the time of the accident. Also the nail hanging of it ripped my skin off revealing my jaw bone had surgery to fix it but scared for life I never would go back light water valley ever since the incident happened.
It's so messed up that they sold that. Thats like trading your car that is falling apart and has a flat tire. It's a death trap.
Multiple person lap bars on a ride where there are air time and negative Gs are a damn menace. I had 2 fail on me.
The first was on one of those splash down rides where it goes up, around a curve, down a hill and into a splash pad. I was 6 years old and seated between my mother and another larger passenger in the front row with a common lap, safety bar. When we hit the bottom with the negative Gs and resistance from the splash pad I slid under the bar and almost into the nose of the car. Thankfully, my mom and other passenger grabbed me before I got hurt from smacking into something riders shouldn't come in contact with.
The second time was in a ride that has 2 open sided cars chasing each other around in a vertical circle giving the riders positive and negative Gs. I was seated in the outside edge of the car sharing a lap bar with my mom. When we had negative Gs I lifted off the seat until I was almost standing. This was very problematic because I was also looking over the edge. I'm not going to say I was going to fall out of the ride as it was at its highest point, but I easily could have. Thankfully, my mom realized what was going on, grabbed my arm, pulled me down and used het arm as a shoulder restraint as she gripped the edge of the car.
If you're ever going on a ride with just a shared lap bar make sure to go on with someone a similar size to you so it works.
Oh I’ve seen this Roller coaster like this before. They have it at the big show that occurs once a year. Haven’t been on it before
I worked at an amusement park in Amarillo Texas when I was in high school. I've gone to it since I was 5. The family that owns it have very strict standards for ride safety and maintenance and the rides are inspected daily before opening. All operators are taught to run the rides correctly and will be very quickly fired if found to violate the rules. A quick check of records have only 4 major accidents and only one death since 1951. So not all amusement parks are run badly (which is why you get these type of deaths.)
There's a very similar ride in the Scotland theme park (I think there is only one...) They've had various breakdowns and accidents aswell.
Yeah The Crazy Mouse, absolute death trap.
I'm from Poland, you make great stories and you do fantasic job 😎
I went on a ride like that called ‘Crazy Mouse.’ Each sharp corners it took on the edge of the coaster made me think I was gonna fall off and die 😵
Was this at Delgrossos?
That’s one of the main gimmicks of wild mouse coasters like that: sharp turns that make you think the train is gonna fly off the tracks. That’s never happened on a wild mouse coaster over the nearly 70 years and over a hundred installations (at least that I know of, and I know a lot (not to brag 😏)). Don’t confuse fear with danger on most rides. Statistically you’re more likely to die on the drive TO an amusement park that IN it!
ironically enough the same ride with the same manufacturer existed at disney world at the animal kingdom theme park and it was called "primeval whirl" and thru its operation has 2 deaths their before disney dismantled it in 2021.
Great Video. More amusement park videos would be much appreciated 🤙
went there several times as a kid, this is crazy
Shit, I rode this once at the carnival and almost fell out. I didn't know it was THAT dangerous!
I had a rollercoaster at a local themepark with a very similar design and track as that but was renamed and the carts were mice. I rode this so many times and loved this ride and now I know I was at risk of bad injury or worst
No, not really.
There really isn’t any real risk. Freak accidents happen anywhere. But on roller coasters it’s genuinely one of the rarest things ever.
Very well narrated.
I have been on a ride exactly like this one and was horrified of the idea of the car coming off the track. Those super tight turns while spinning just doesn't seem like a good combo.
Waiting for the video about the MV Sewol Ship!
In today's day and age, imagine suing for ~$100k when your entire family dies on a roller coaster... Chump change.
Holly hell I went on that ride on a school trip 8 years ago
This ride looks really similar to one a carnival that came to Georgia brought called Crazy Mouse
Didn't know about the ultimate closing. What a crazy and violent ride that was. POV's on UA-cam don't do it justice
I went there a few times as a kid but I remember when my mum and sister went on the coaster they said they felt whiplash and I'm pretty sure there was some bruises too but nothing major - safe to say my mum did not go on another ride. A lot of rides there were pretty aggressive even when they're deemed as "Kid friendly".
Im watching the footage of the ride, and getting a serious case of deja vu. Like.. Ive been on the ride, but Ive never been to the UK. And it finally hit me, I have been on this ride, in Disney World Animal Kingdom Primeval Whirl. Its the same ride. The wiki even confirms it was made/provided by Reverchon. Purchased the year after the accident. And the Disney ride.. killed two employees over the course of its existence(per the wiki).
Jesus Christ Disney
dear god ...
It’s not the same the same ride. Same model, but the model itself is extremely common.
It may be a similar model, but it’s not the same ride. Reverchon has built dozens of this style ride, many of which have operated without incident.
the wiki seems like those employees died from operating/maintaining the ride and accidentally injuring themselves in the process rather than riding the ride itself
Good to know the ride isn't being inspected, but instead
taken down and put up weekly by Carnies. lol!
I don't know about the UK, but in Germany travelling are inspected every time they are set up in a new location, which means they're generally very safe with few accidents.
@@CoraBuhlert
I would expect nothing less in Germany. You folks care about each other.
I live in the US, and nothing is inspected here, untill there's an death, or a terrible accident.
Hint: Never go to a church fair in the states.
OH MY GOD THAT RIDE WAS IN THE MIAMI DADE WORLD FAIR AND IT WAS REBRANDED AS THE CRAZY MOUSE its literally the exact same ride and it was Terrible because the turns flung every part of your body into the uncomfortable seats at full force which hurts your back and neck
There was a fatal accident on The Mad Mouse at Lagoon Amusement Park here in Utah years ago. The ride was redesigned and opened again with a different name, and another accident. It finally was removed from the park
really scary knowing that one of these exact rides are in my local theme park and that ive been on it more than 6 times
This is the same ride as the Primeval Whirl that is now defunct at Disney World's Animal Kingdom. It's crazy to think a Kiddie coaster can be so dangerous, but two incidents happened on it as well and is now demolished. I think the smaller coasters aren't given as much attention bc they are considered safer by default.
The mother said they didn't tell her to wear restraints... Are you serious? Does someone need to constantly remind you to breath out?
"We weren't told to wear a restraint..."
People like this are why we have warning labels one everything.
Exactly. I’ve been on this exact ride model before. They have giant obvious lap bars that you can’t miss. It’s common sense to wear the thing.
I'm amazed that a judge, someone who had to have been involved in law for at least several years, doesn't know what qualifies as misadventure.
>literally has a seatbelt
"tHeY nEvEr ToLd mE tO WeAr a sEatBeLt"
I mean if you don't love your kid you don't love your kid, sheesh
we had one of those kill a kid in Indiana, during a traveling carnival. Similar ride, but different name and color scheme. I can't remember if it was a city-to-city carnival or state fair as it happened about 20 something years ago.
I remember going on this when i was younger, i loved this ride, last time i went was roughly 2018, then the covid lockdowns hit, and i didnt go after, i never knew about the one in 2001. Me and my sister used to know this ride as the "sugar puff ride" as the trains looks quite like the sugarpuff monster. The black flag was another ride that had some issues in 2018/19
Reminds me of the Wacky Worm at Worlds of Fun. The only kid's Rollercoaster.
oh my gosh i live really near lightwater valley but i had no idea about this and almost went on the ride one time, terrifying…
I absolutely hate these rollercoasters for this kind of issue. They terrify me - especially the ones they have on beach piers. They always feel like they’re going to fling off with how sharp they turn.
I think that's normal, even with the ones at established theme parks with these types of rollercoasters, they do that, all of them do, it's a thrill factor, it's done like that on purpose. your aren't actually gonna fall off
When ppl ask me why I don't go in these kind of place, I would show this video lol
If you get on a ride, & there's a seat belt 💺, why should you have to be told to WEAR IT?!? Do you think it's just there for aesthetic reasons?!? Some people just shouldn't have kids.
Years ago my school took us on a trip to lightwater valley I remember feeling sketched out by the rides the pearl was the worst for me as the brace keeping you restrained gave way not fully but enough for me to almost be flung from the ride it was horrifying I'm surprised the park never fully got shut down
This feels like there was some palms being greased when it comes to this thing. On the second one you have to wonder about the mom when she didn't figure out that the safety belts were there for a reason, you shouldn't need to be told to put them on.
I was on a ride nearly identical to this one in 2022, it was built to be transportable and the tracks seemed quite unstable. The ride was in the Basel Herbstmesse, I remember sliding around in my seat and feeling the restraining bar moving up and down from the changing gravity.
I learned a new word today: Misadventure.
Misadventure?? How can that judge sleep at night??? Disgusting.
Gotta love the English to English translation.
Butters must have been grounded afterwards
0:28 my mind immediately turned that into arson 😂😂😂
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