Cable shavings hit 4 riders

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and you send them all to the hospital

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They were offered a trip to the hospital. They refused.

Alright, so I never really payed attention to the Launch. (that specific area) until I heard a cable snapped. Ok, so, were there bits of metal imbedded into the track support before the incident?

That's what I find interesting Walt, they were offered a trip to the hospital, refused and then complained that CP didn't do enough for their injuries.

Also, I think someone said a ways back that how can this not be an accident and whatnot just because they didn't go to the hospital. Well, thats what Ohio State Law says. Thats the point of laws like that, to set some kind of qualifiers so as to reduce the gray area. I'm not too worried about it since a state investigation would just mean they'd want to have one of their guys in there too getting in the way and asking unneccessary questions. Instead, CP can focus on solving the problem and fixing it.

Monster, whats your source that they reused the same cable after it broke? It would seem to me to be impossible to re-use a snapped cable because it wouldn't be long enough to reach the distance. Maybe I'm wrong but I'm just curious as to where you heard that.

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monster said:
OK, it takes someone being hospitalized or worse before the state will investigate. I'm sorry, but I feel CP is getting a free ride on this one (no pun intended). CP was lucky that ther were no serious injuries, but the potential was there..

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Monster, what makes you an expert on what can or cannot happen? If the State of Ohio considers this NOT to be an accident, and that it was a minor incident, you are pretty arrogant to want to classify it differently.

A complete cable break happened before, and the design of the ride is such to make a cable break safe for the riders. Rideman had a good explanation of the cable routing the first time it happened, do a search. CP was not lucky, this incident doesn't have the potential for serious injuries. I'd be more worried about getting hit in the face by a bird riding TTD than receiving serious injuries from small pieces of metal wire. I'm sorry that anyone was even slightly injured on the ride. But the people involved, going by the news segment, are just whiners looking to profit off this. I'd gladly trade a front seat Dragster ride during the incident for some of the injuries I've received playing racquetball.

Also, with all due respect to the state inspectors, they do not know the ride nearly as well as CP and Intamin do. A state inspection would do nothing, and would just get in the way of the real experts working on this ride, in my opinion.

To the people talking about explosions and burned track, that's just laughable. The black stains you see are caused by grease and other things building up on the building. Just like your car engine gets dirty after awhile.

The Snake River incidents were caused by people being thrown forward by the impact with the water at the bottom of the drop. Supposedly caused facial injuries, including broken noses (unconfirmed). Cp made the entry point more gradual to lessen the force, and also installed the present restraint bars the keep your upper body back in the seat. The original restraints were just small lap bars.

On Mean Streak, a guy had his hand jammed between the train and the metal plate on the station when he stuck his hand out coming into the station. Almost had his hand severed. CP installed the brushes you see at the entrance to the station to warn people to get their hands out of the way. *** Edited 7/15/2004 2:34:59 PM UTC by Pete***

I'm with you Pete.

I Still want to see a pic of the people ofter the ride. I dont trust people. iKNOw i still want to ride it and still will when it opens. You know it cant be that bad if they did not know that they were getting hit. I really dont care what the people say i will still love cedar point

They did know they were getting hit, they just figured it was bugs, not shrapnel. I don't think a picture exists, at least thats being released, of the riders. I'm sure CP has some for documentation purposes but that's probably it, and I don't think you'll ever see those.

Two trains are on the track right now! The other three are on the transfer track! They may get it up soon. Yay!

Sorry, but I have to post again all the trains are on the track and they may get it up by later today or tomorrow! Hooray for the good mechanics of Cedar Point!

WOOOO HOOOOO!!! I hope they are going to get it up and running and not just toying with my emotions!!!

I just can't believe it!

sandman, are you at CP? I just talked to my son who is there and he says they are giving NO indication of getting TTD up today. MF is down too.

Well I'm just trying to be optimistic.

I thought we already covered this. You cannot make assumptions based on a static image that updates every 60 seconds.

I hate summer break....

Do you think that they were mad (the injured riders) that they couldnt get there on ride photo...?

...It would be interseting...

I would want one, an on ride photo, just because I could show people what happened. It'd be very odd looking, though.

-Eagle-

They're doing it just to tease people like you who have too much time on their hands.

Maybe they needed to do some work in the area of the maintenance tracks and wanted the trains out of the way to make it easier.

Why on earth would they want to work on the transfer tracks. The problems on the regular track.

Well, there are trains on the track, but I doubt we'll see the ride open this week.