Brand New Thrill Amusement Ride Kills Six in Horror and Catastrophically Injures Many Others
As an experienced Pennsylvania amusement park injury lawyer who has witnessed and investigated my fair share of catastrophic amusement park accidents, I was sorry to learn that six people were killed on a brand new thrill ride at a popular Asian amusement park. Nine people were catastrophically injured when the Space Journey Amusement, a dome-like space shuttle simulator plunged 12 meters to the ground with more than 40 people inside the ride. One of the persons who was inside the ride stated that there was a sudden loud boom inside the cabin and then everything went black. A lucky rider who escaped unhurt stated, “There was a power cut when the crash happened and I smelled something burning.” Another rider stated that she made it out without serious injury but recalled a smell of burning rubber and the door was jammed, trapping people inside. Most of the riders were found unconscious and rushed to the hospital.
Forty-four people were on the Space Journey amusement ride, which has a capacity for 48 at the time of the accident. The dome-like device offers a thrill of a rocket launch spinning 360 degrees while going up and down with a 24 meter wide screen providing space scenes. The simulated journey was coming to the end of a five minute routine when all went wrong in this newly designed thrill feature. The ride was designed to hold 48 thrill-seeking riders circularly on a simulator 4 to a row after which the simulator spins while taking riders up and down a height of 12 meters. An engineer thought that the accident was caused by “high acceleration due to gravity.” He explained that the dropping of the simulator can create an extremely high impact force of twice the weight of its five tons.
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