Girl Dies After Falling Out Of Ride At Brazilian Amusement Park

We had a girl here in KY that was on this exact ride at Six Flags here and a cable snapped and severed both of her legs (one at the knee, one at the ankle). They were able to reattach one foot, if I recall, but she lost the other leg. Witnesses recalled watching the body parts raining down on them while standing in line. Every since that happened I won’t get on that ride. Seems to me a lot of injuries on this particular ride.

I’ve been witness to a carnival ride tragedy/accident/whatever…If anyone has every been or know what the common local ride The Zipper is like, it was right when they were finished loading up the last cab, I was on line, about 13 years old..I remember seeing the girl who was an older teen get in shouting to her friends on line by me, carny-guy closed the cage door, and as the ride went off (not a slow start either, it was moving pretty fast) and her cab got about half way up I could see her just fall out, hit the next cab underneath, and then the ground smacking the aluminum fence around the ride. It was fucked up!…and amazingly, she only broke a leg but was banged up really bad.
That’s the fun about roller-coasters…near death experiences, that ride once up and running again was almost impossible to get on cause everyone wanted to freak themselves out. 

When I was younger I would force myself to get on any and all amusement park Roller Coasters and such – but now I will only get on one if I think that I will honestly enjoy it.We only live once and I have found that quite a few of the things which are fun to do are in fact dangerous – like couch surfing …

That ride in las vegas on top of the stratosphere is a lot of fun. Has anyone done the jump off the building?

So that was you I saw on the tea cups…. The feeling of your colon in your throat means its a good ride.

Another good reason to never get on any similar rides.

I remember hearing about that one.  I will never ride that thing again.  That rideaccidents.com is an interesting site for sure.

Yeah, I’m with you, I don’t like the feeling of free-falling anyway. I rode it once, and I held my legs out straight because I kept thinking of the brakes fail I didn’t want to have my legs crushed between the ride and the concrete. My husband pointed out that if the brakes fail on this ride my legs should be the last thing I should worry about. Good point.

She fell 80-90 feet, landed face first and then died on the way to the hospital. The whole situation is tragic, but that made it even worse. I really hope she wasn’t aware at any point after she landed. That sounds tactless, but y’all know what I mean.

That’s awesome, Morbid. Proves that just because we make sometimes seemingly tasteless jokes about things, the people on this site are by and large concerned about our fellow man. We just handle the stories differently. Thanks for the link, too.

I don’t know about the rest of them, but the New England one changed the name of the Superman roller coaster and really minor details of the track after someone fell out and died in order to keep their death statistics at 0. So no need to fear, they’ve slightly altered things by a foot or two so you should be totally safe now!

It’s a pretty kickass coaster though. If you’re not obese or tiny I’d say do it!

I used to LOVE the Zipper when I was a kid. I went on it a few years back with my husband and I was terrified. It was no longer fun for me. Thats the last time I’ll get on that ride!

The ride won’t runaway, the ground will stop you… =)

You are not confusing The Superman ride with The Batman roller coaster are you ? The Superman has no tracks – it simply goes straight up (cables) and then comes straight down in swift drops;It’s a parachute ride.

Is your hair natural red?

Most likely shitty maintenance,and inept employees.

Nah, I think they’re just different at different parks. Superman used to be rated as the Top Steel Coaster in the country, but they had massive brake failures once (22 injured) and didn’t restrain a man properly (a man with cerebral palsy flew out his seat and died near the end) so they renamed it. A new name makes it safer though I’m sure

Or it reduced the cost of insurance.

I wonder what a Brazilian carny looks like?  

 Who in their right mind would color their hair red like mine??? Hahahah! YES it is NATURAL!!!!! YOU LIKEY don’t ya???

 I know right!

Before or after he rides this thing?

The ride at Great America used to be called Drop Zone. It was closed for a while after that accident until they gave it a new paint job and a new name. 

Fuck that shit. I knew there was a reason I never rode the Superman at Six Flags. Shit like this can happen. No good can come from a ride that takes you up that high and lets you free fall. Poor little girl I know her family and everyone who witnessed this incident will be forever scarred!

The graduating class of i believe 86 or 87 of john f kennedy high school burned to death in te haunted house in nj six flags iactually not the entire class but it was a day they closed the park and only that yrs graduating class could attend, sprinklers didnt work and someone used a lighter to see they tore it down and never had another, the family got like 20 plus million for one guy who due to the melted lighter in hand started the fire, he was the ex bf of my friend

F*ck! You won, hands down.

That’s gotta be horrible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_Castle_(Six_Flags_Great_Adventure)#1984_Fire

I hate roller coasters. If I want to know what it is like to have my kidney’s punched, I will get in a boxing ring.