Posted on 07/15/2022 7:06:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Police said they got a call at 12:50 p.m. that a car was stuck in a ride in Tivoli Friheden and several people were stuck. Two people were sitting on the rear seats and were taken by emergency workers, the newspaper reported. Ragborg Olsen told the Ekstra Bladet daily that the two had been seriously injured and were taken to the hospital.
The accident occurred on the Cobraen roller-coaster and the park has been shut down...
The roller-coaster is 25 meters (82 feet) tall and the wagons have a top speed of 70 kilometers per hour (44 mph)...
The roller coaster was the scene of an accident in 2008, shortly after it opened.
At that time, it was the front part that broke away, leaving four people seriously injured.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Cobra Inverted Roller Coaster POV Tivoli Friheden Denmark (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJlfjBLE4C0
Tivoli Is one of the oldest amusement parks in the world
how many people have been killed or killed themselves since the economy went of the rails ?
A friend’s family were stuck upside down in one a few years back
Sad. RIP.
That poor child.
This makes me so sad.
These rides get more dangerous all the time.
Most Roller Coaster rides today are made by the Knowfa Kingway Company. “Knowfa Kingway - I’m riding that!”
We quit going on those rides years ago!!!!
The problem is they don’t really have qualified people inspecting them regularly. They have carnies that do quick visuals, which is not a real inspection. Even if they do have in the rare case some real inspector check it after initial setup, they don’t do a full exhaustive inspection every single day.
I play the Washington State Fair, (Puyallup) and I know for a fact that the “Carnies” every morning walk the roller coaster rides inch by inch—I see it every morning when opening my booth the month of September.
Granted there are accidents—some involving deaths. Usually it is because of a missing carter-pin, or some such that has worked its way out of position. All in all ride operators take their job seriously. But I will give the caveat that some outifts might be better than others. I have seen some rag-trag broke-down units pulling onto the lot with the newest ride being a 40 year old Gravitron.
It is amazing that there are any traveling carnivals left. Was talking to the owner of one at a fair we have been doing for some 25 years and his fuel prices for the diesel generators are outtasight. Not only that, but many carnivals had rides they were paying the bank for...no season due to covid...rides go back to the bank and the carnival succumbs....sad story.
It’s beautiful.
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Some of the roller coasters in Vietnam are originally from the failed Freestyle Music Park, formerly called Hard Rock Park that was in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
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