Insane Theme Park Ride ACCIDENTS

Can we have a moment off silence for the people who died😞😞😞

Back when I was in middle school I actually rode on the Dragon Challenge ride. It was breath taking and it's actually kind of sad to hear that it was closed down because people weren't willing to follow the rules.

The Fujin Raijin II ride was such a horrible incident. The woman who lost her life was only 19, and another person saw how she died from just 2 feet away. Absolutely traumatizing.

I rode Son of Beast just a day or two before it shut down, and we all commented on the fact that the ride seemed rougher than usual.

Can you imagine being on a rollercoaster with your grandpa when they go flying out? 😭 Those kids must have been so scared and sad. 😔

So the Dueling Dragons one wasn't actually dangerous, people were literally not following the warnings and others got hurt. Who could have seen that coming-

I remember Action Park. Yup, it is just as dangerous as described but SO MUCH FUN! The one ride not mentioned was the alpine sled track. Tiny plastic toboggans on a concave concrete track (actually more of a curved drainage ditch, actually) that went down the mountain. Totally rider controlled by a leaver brake and nothing but a few inches of lip to keep you in the trail grove. Usually. Get going fast enough and you could launch your sled off the track an into the hay bales on the tight turns. I know it was possible because I did exactly that. Several times. You just picked up the sled, walked back tot he track, waited for the next kamikaze to fly by and drop the sled back in track to keep going. The rest of the water based rides were a bit safer, but not much. The river raft mentioned in the video really did have one section called "The Toilet Bowl" After bumping your way down the ride, you ended up on a large basin and, like the turd that won't flush after salisbury steak night, you circled the drain until you went in and through another dark and curving pipe to end up popping out at a sudden drop and dropping 15 or so feet in to the final pool. It was not uncommon to have riders fall, or jump, out of the rafts and slide the rest of the way Staff really did not care about the safety of the rides or riders doing unsafe things, but would clean up and bandage any injuries with care and attention. It was not uncommon for many of the staff to be volunteer fire fighters and EMT's in the local community. (That area did not have any paid fire departments at the time.) I guess working at the park did help keep the skills sharp for those late night car wrecks and other trauma calls. During the winter the park was a ski resort, of sorts. Not great trail conditions, short runs, and lousy grooming, but it was cheap. I think an annual pass was about the same price as a weekend pass to Whistler, Vail, or Breckenridge. And the annual pass was good for the whole year at both VV and GG parks.

Our folks took me and my friend I grew up with to action park all the time! It really had a feeling that the rides were designed by kids our age (about 11). I remember the rope swing over the lake with no safety padding where you stood on a platform about 30 feet above a lake shore, held on to a trapeze handle and jumped. There were no straps or harnesses and when you started your jump you were over the ground. Then (my favorite) the bumper boats where people from age 10 to 70 all got into individual innertube boats in a little pond and smashed into each other, boat engines racing and smoking. Then of course the giant water slides which this video touches on. Things were different back in the 80s. I still miss it!

My fear of roller-coasters and other theme park rides is human error.

You didn't mention that the 10 year old boy that died on that German water slide was actually beheaded, which totally horrified me! Image his poor family and other riders having to view the extremely bloody and grotesque horror they can never unsee! All these deaths and accidents are a tragedy, but for some reason this one is so, so gut wrenching.

I live near Kings Island in Ohio and rode son of beast dozens of times throughout my childhood. It was always rough and even as a teenager it would make my back hurt but we would often go get right back in line because it was such a wild rush. Fun fact: My dad is actually one of the people who helped build the Son of Beast when it went up and wrote my name in sharpie on one of the slabs of wood! Also just to clarify the Verrückt incident did not just 'launch" the boy, the raft was launched, causing the boys head to hit one of the pole rings, decapiting him instantly. The injuries the two women suffered were from the boys head hitting them afterward and the saddest part is that the boys body then slid down the slide where his parents and younger siblings were waiting for him 😢 It was so much more tragic than him being thrown from his seat. Later videos showed the creator of the ride running tests and the raft flew up, just like it did when the boy died, and the creator laughs and says "its good enough for him" amd then they placed the net and opened the ride to the public. 😔

Sadly, my mom’s friend died in an accident on a slingshot ride. Let her rest in peace.

19:10 - I actually went to High School with the girl that was operating the ride at the time that this happened (I believe she was a year older than me) and it was something that she had never been able to mentally recover from, as one can imagine. It was actually forbidden for any of us to talk about at school because of how horrible of an accident it was.

Demolishing a dangerous ride two days after it fails spectacularly, nearly injuring or kiIIing a guest, sounds a lot like tampering with evidence.

These people did something for us in their sacrifice, shut most of these rides down! Rest in peace 😢

I like how he keeps using F.R.I.E.N.Ds Memes for most times. Keep it up!

In 2002 I went on the Dueling Dragon with my son & 11 year old daughter. I thought I had properly buckled her in. The attendant girl was going to every person making sure all seat belts were buckled, she would pull on it & when she got to my daughter she pulled on it & it opened right up! My heart felt like it dropped into my stomach. I was so shocked because I thought I had snapped it closed. The young lady buckled it & If I remember correctly she then pulled down the bar over her. Shortly after that the ride took off. Afterwards, I was still so shocked by that, I never took them on a roller coaster again. Even to this day I have not been on a roller coaster. Thank God they had an attendant going to each person making sure that they were properly buckled in.

"this ride works. Unless it gets too hot, then everyone dies"

got to say, it's amazing how many over sights there are and it turns out a lot of these things could've EASILY been prevented if they just followed saftey guidlines and check ups surprised even anyone trusts these kinds of rides as well. Seeing how I'd be asking when was their last maintenance, did it go smoothly, and what are the odds of me dying lol

"A rotating hate crime" ... That description fits quite a few things in today's world.