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- Amusement park accidents refer to serious injuries or deaths that occur at amusement parks. Many such accidents are reported to regulatory authorities as usually required by law everywhere.
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Read on to learn about the most frightening incidents to ever occur around the world — including some that happened on rides that remain open today. Fatal accidents on theme park rides are exceedingly rare. But they do happen at some amusement parks.
This is a summary of notable incidents that have taken place at various independently owned amusement parks, water parks or theme parks. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of every such event, but only those that have a significant impact on the parks or park operations, or are otherwise significantly newsworthy.
- Deadliest roller coaster accident in history: The Big Dipper at Battersea Fun Fair. London’s Battersea Park was the site of the most deadly roller coaster disaster in history.
- Day of death: King’s Island’s “black Sunday” Kings Island amusement park opened in Ohio in 1972, and there were no fatalities at the park in its first 19 years of operation.
- The Orlando FreeFall Nightmare. On March 24, 2022, 14-year old Tyre Sampson visited Orlando’s ICON Park with his football teammates, excited to ride The Orlando FreeFall.
- The Haunted Castle fire at Great Adventure: the most deadly theme park accident in history. The Haunted Castle at New Jersey’s Great Adventure amusement park was the site of the most deadly theme park accident in history.
Amusement park accidents refer to serious injuries or deaths that occur at amusement parks. Many such accidents are reported to regulatory authorities as usually required by law everywhere. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission tracks statistics for all amusement ride accidents.
The term incidents refers to major accidents, injuries, deaths that occur at a European park. While these incidents were required to be reported to regulatory authorities due to where they occurred, they usually fall into one of the following categories: [citation needed] Caused by negligence on the part of the guest.
A lready this young summer season, there have been two terrifying incidents on amusement park rides in the U.S., one of which led to a parkgoer suffering critical injuries.
The operator of Australia's Dreamworld theme park has been fined A$3.6m (£2m; $2.5m) over the deaths of four people on a malfunctioning water ride.