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Posted on 08/28/2026 12:12:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Pamela Guillen, 40, told CNN she was visiting Magic Mountain to celebrate her daughter’s 16th birthday and they decided to make X2 the final ride of the day before heading to dinner.
During the ride’s 3,600-foot course, Guillen repeatedly struck her head against the headrest and, when the train returned to the station, needed assistance exiting her seat and began vomiting, according to ambulance records obtained by CNN.
She lost consciousness and became unresponsive after sitting down on a bench.
“Mommy, please wake up,” her daughter, Marquez, recalled saying to her mother. “I kept rubbing her thigh and kept shaking her to wake up and she wouldn’t.”
Guillen was rushed to Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, where a CT scan revealed a severe subdural hematoma and brain compression, her family said. She underwent emergency surgery to relieve pressure on her brain, a procedure that required surgeons to remove part of her skull.
She woke up in a hospital bed two weeks later and could not remember what had happened.
“You go in as yourself, and then when you come back, you’re a medical emergency. Like I still can’t wrap my head around that,” Guillen said.
Six days later, 25-year-old Naomi Greer-Wilkinson of Los Angeles lost consciousness shortly after riding X2, according to her family. She also was taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital and underwent emergency brain surgery.
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Not Good.
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Newhall Cal. Makes the News.
They might not be able to afford insurance on that thing.
How hard is that “headrest?”
Well, out on the lot the motto is “Thrill ‘em, Don’t Kill ‘em.” For those who ever worked the midway, you know what I mean.
Deadly Six Flags rollercoaster finally closed after latest victims needed emergency brain surgery: report
Unless you already have a brain injury.....Shut it down.
I don’t mind rollercoasters- i was on the one in DisneyLand a few weeks ago- but watching this one makes me want to vomit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGUB6eHagts
bttt
My take: The first person had an underlying problem such as an aneurism just ready to pop, and the g forces from the coaster put them over the edge.
The second person read about the first person and is now looking for a payday.
Generally I do. Though never working exactly the midway, I occasionally traveled in those circles.
I’m surprised this hasn’t happened more often. I road X2 three years ago. On my 4th and final ride, my head hit the back of the headrest VERY hard, and it had me seeing lots of stars. Not good. I’ve ridden hundreds of coasters, and X2 is one I would never ride again. There’s a similar 4D coaster, Eejanaika, in Japan, but it’s engineered better and doesn’t deliver headbangs like X2 does.
(Never mind that nowadays they don't even have to read, write, or add to graduate with honors.)
The thing about deceleration of the brain is that padding only does so much. And old people have fragile blood vessels, aneurysms, and are on blood thinners.
Blood thinners + small head bump or deceleration = fatal head bleed.
There was a case in The Lancet a few years ago of a young person (not on anticoagulants) who was 'head banging' -- i.e., dancing with exaggerated head movements, and he had bilateral subdurals and herniated and died at the concert.
Rock, Metal, etc., these are pure Darwin.
People need to pull their heads out. It's not 1961 anymore. There's lots of information out there on how not to do stupid stuff and get maimed or killed by it.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/action-park-photos/
Years ago, I read that the trend in roller coaster engineering was to always push the envelop. Make the rides ever more exciting, more thrilling, and more extreme.
Thanks for posting....
I Think
YES!!! The dummys were decapitated on the practice runs!!!
I went there in the early to mid 80’s....i went into the wave pool...i have always been in really shape during my life as i trained for the Olympic decathlon for a decade...I almost drowned in that wave pool...i remember struggling to get to the ladder, had to pull myself out of the pool and just laid there in pain for a few minutes while my body recovered...
that place was nutso!!!
see my comment, #18...nice to see i wasn’t alone!!!
The Tidal Wave
Opened in 1981, the Tidal Wave Pool quickly became one of Action Park’s most popular—and most dangerous—attractions.
It earned the nickname “The Grave Pool” after multiple drownings, including the first in 1982 and another five years later. What truly set it apart, however, was the staggering number of near-misses and rescues that occurred daily.
Currently headed to the Monterey County Fair which opens next week. I was always on the lot, but never in the carnival. Not a junk dealer, but definitely a vendor. Also played a stint as a showman with America’s Smallest Traveling Museusm. Ten foot front. See the Strange Thing grind show. But now we are semi retired after nearly 35 years on the road. What a life, truly.
May all your lots be green.
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