Accidents at CP?

Not to sound morbid or anything like that. But I remember back in the early 80's, reading a story about the corkscrew falling off the track and people getting hurt? Anyone remember reading this? Also, You ride ops, I know you have stories, Please post!

Hehehehe. The Corkscrew fell off. Haha.

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I think CP takes very good care of itself. Not many accidents happen there I think. And this Corkscrew crap...how can it "fall off track"? Does that mean the train fell off the track? If it did then CP should've sued Arrow.

Back when the Corkscrew was new, one of the extended-layout Corkscrew coasters did break an axle or two, resulting in a rework of the axle assembly. I do not know if Cedar Point had problems with their Corkscrew or not. I do recall that there were no major incidents attributed to the problem. This is all based on a very fuzzy memory of something I read in a back-issue of Amusement Business some years ago, so naturally I can't remember any of the details. :)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Rideman-

Would you be speaking of the Demon incident that resulted in the train stopping in the loop?

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Oh, it happened on CP's ride too. I think Tim knows more about it. I don't remember if it stalled out inverted (I don't think it did), but I swear that Tim mentioned it happened once.

But "accidents" are where people get hurt or die. CP has very few "accidents."

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Jeff
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If I remember right, the connection between the first and second car on one of the Corkscrew trains broke resulting in the first car "bouncing" it's way down the track. Imagine how your back would feel after THAT fun ride.

I was on the Space Spiral (back when it was a young ride. Maybe the early seventies) and the cabin came down on a ride operators foot...she had it hanging over the edge when the cabin came down. They sent the cabin back up and we sat there what seemed like an eternity while they carted off the ride hostess. I didn't go on that thing for YEARS after that incident!.

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Wasnt there a person on Mean Streak a few years back that got his arm cut off? I remember seeing it on the news while I was staying in Camper Village. Anyone know anything about this?

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dont bother

Never happened, and you didn't see it on the news.

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Jeff
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I didn't see it on the news, but I read it in the Lorain Morning Journal. A man had his arm hanging out of the side of the train while coming back into the station. He didn't lose his arm, but his hand was almost severed and he was Lifeflighted to Metro.

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Jeff you are correct...I did mention it once;) The "Corkscrew Accident" haapened back in the summer of '81...The connection between the first and second car snap as the first car was at the top of the loop...The train rolled back as the first car stopped at the bottom of the loop. NO ONE was seriously injured.

The "problem" was the second joint under the outer connection snapped and pulled apart.

It was funny because after everyone was safe and CP was removing the train after the park closed, one of the local (Cleveland) news stations sent a helicopter to try to get film of the incident...as the helicopter flew overhead, CP shut off the flood lights on the ride and waited until they left.

This brings up another "interesting" question...If you where at CP and "something happened" ie..chain breaks on the Magnum..would you videotape it and give/sell the tape to your local news outlet?

Well, I was watching Real TV a few years ago and they had a shot of Magnum e-stopped about halfway up the lift ("over 200 feet up!") that somebody had shot from the Breakers parking lot. Apparently the folks sitting there were in some life-threatening situiation. Of course the show made a huge deal out of it.

But, would I do it? Maybe if it was something drastic like a chaindog and anti-rollback failure that results in a train hurtling down the lifthill and into another train in the station.

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*** This post was edited by Michael Darling 1/27/2003 10:44:10 AM ***

Michael/John/Whoever you are: The axle problem on the Corkscrew that I was referring to was not related to the Demon incident. In that case the axle didn't break, it separated from the last car. Which sounds like what happened in the '81 Corkscrew incident described above...but Arrow's design safeties all the axles except the last one (which got a safety bracket after 1998!) so if it happens in the middle of the train, the train won't come apart and the car won't drop.

By the way, Magnum has also had its share of broken axles (well, I know it's happened at least once...). And I have also heard about the Mean Streak incident...strictly via hearsay, but I only heard that fingers (not hand, not arm) were involved. I also heard that said fingers were not severed.

If I had video of Bad Things happening...I'm not certain exactly what would happen to it. I actually hadn't given it much thought. Oh, I have video of Bad Things happening, but none of the Bad Things I have seen have been newsworthy...

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
*** This post was edited by RideMan 1/27/2003 12:52:19 PM ***

Did 'White Water Landing' have an incident (not accident) last year where two cars had gone down the hill and collided?

I heard the same thing that Dave did regarding Mean Streak. Something similar happened at WDW on Big Thunder Mountain to a young boy.

Point4Life, yes. A boat got stuck and another one collided with it, at a very, very low speed. (We're talking around two or three m.p.h. I believe.) No injuries.

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(white water landing)
Two boats got jammed together at the merge point and a third boat hit them. Nothing serious, really, but that ended two-chute operation for the season. I just hope that for 2003 they go back to running both chutes.

Oh, the mangled foot on Big Thunder Mountain was not at WDW, it was at Disneyland. The kid lost about half of one of his feet, and his Mom became, quite frankly, the best kind of accident victim/safety advocate the industry could ask for. Visit her website at http://www.saferparks.org to see what I mean.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Didn't someone really get hurt on disaster transport? I think one of the asteroids fell on the track or something.

Ah, yes the mangled foot was Disneyland. My bad.

Asteroid fell in 1990, and I guess the car hit it. News reports suggested that two people were sent to the hospital for treatment of a "whiplash-type" injury. Again, nothing serious or life-threatening.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.