Accident History

I'm fairly certain that they replace chains every couple of years no matter what, since it makes more sense to make a preemptive strike against downtime during the season. Perhaps someone knows better, but I'm pretty sure this is what they do.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 50

That makes sense to prevent this from happening during season. Before I found this site I thought I knew alot about this CP through reading books and other web sites. But it turns out I know Nothing like Sgt. Shultz in Hogans Heroes. This place rocks. Stupid CP book.

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Joe E

Joe...a quick correction...
I'm not certain, but I believe the couplers on the Big Dipper are long U-shaped steel pieces which are captured together, but held apart by a large spring. My understanding (which may be wrong, mind you) is that the spring is what failed...the cars did not separate, but did bump together. Such a failure is extremely difficult to predict, and that spring could very well have been decades old.
It's not that Geauga Lake did anything wrong on Big Dipper; it's just that a part failed. And I should add that the seriousness of that incident was comparable to the seriousness of the Corkscrew chain incident at CP.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I borrowed "CP: QAWP" from Interlibrary Loan a while back, and I had to return it so unfortunately I don't have it on me to check, but I remember reading about the accident which Magnum 89- refers to much earlier in this thread. It happened a long time ago (I think it was maybe on "Leap the Dips" but I'm not sure). A guy was really drunk, and he fell out of the car onto the tracks, where he was struck and killed by the next train. The book also says that the stagecoach ride was discontinued after the horses bolted and overturned the stagecoach. It says people were injured, but doesn't say whether anyone was killed.

I thought I read on these threads a while back that a young boy fell out of a Cedar Creek Mine Ride car and had to go to the hospital...

I remember that......

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Trim brakes-a necessity???

-Magnum 89- I'm the one that tells the tale of the The Wildcat and steeping over students. The thing about the guy getting hit in the head by the baot was in the paper the day I left. I can pass that part off to fate but the name thing?Could somebody be trying to steal my identity? :)
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Remember, line jumping is NOT a sporting event!
*** This post was edited by Magnum 1989- on 12/3/2000. ***

I remeber My Grandfather telling me somthing about seeing a guy on a coaster (either leap the dips or cylone) and stand up and fall out. He is dead now so I cant ask him but he is the kind of person that would not lie.

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Joe E

The Cedar Creek Mine Ride incident was back in the days when they had no height restriction on the Mine Ride. Just a sign that said "No hand held infants please". After the child fell out the ride was changed to a 48" height restriction and the lap bars were made thicker.

The real story behind that whole thing was that it appeared the kid was pushed out by Daddy. Mommy thought the kid was missing, and that's what Daddy said, but the kid said he was pushed out. The family sued Cedar Point and Arrow. Arrow settled, Cedar Point fought it and won, since it was quite clearly rider negligence. Glad they stuck to their principles. We need more of that in our sue-happy society.

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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 50

When was this? Was this the thing that I mentioned before that a kid fell out into the water, or is this something different? Did the kid die or just get hurt? I never knew about the lawsuit though. CP rules.
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Joe E

He just got hurt.

Thanks CP_bound. I always wanted to know what happened.

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Joe E