The WORST Roller Coaster Accidents of the 2010's
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2022
- There are thousands if not millions of coasters running as we speak without any problems. However, every once and a while one does slip up when it does it can lead to disastorous results. Today we look at the 5 worst Roller Coaster accidents of the 2010's...
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Six Flags Great America
Canobie Coaster
Intamin Amusement Rides
Six Flags Magic Mountain
Six Flags Darian Lake
Knotts Berry Farm
Cedar Point
Six Flags Over Texas
Savage Coasters
Stubwood
Alton Towers
AmusementInsider
Coaster Dash
Coaster Thrills
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The first one was really sad, because it could’ve been avoided outright if the staff had just listened to her when she said she didn’t feel safe. In fact, most of these could’ve been completely avoided if people had just used common sense.
Unfortunately, common sense nowadays is not so common anymore.
Also the saddest thing is, the family sounded like they added the fuel on the fire post accident. Saying that they only hear 1 click instead of 3 click.
I've never been on NTG/IR before. But, does that restrain supposedly didn't make sound AT ALL since it has hydraulic restrain? I've been on coaster with hydraulic restrain, and legit it didn't make sound, to the point that "Is it really? Where the click?". Which also explain why the operator just dispatched it once the restrain light is green (which again, that woman also had obesity)
It's America what do you expect
Pls dont take this seriously bro, these are so sad and easily could be avoided
@@hsc894 i can’t help but automatically assume someone is dumb when they say this. Doctors used to not wash their hands before performing surgery and didn’t understand why their patients kept dying from infection. I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more common sense floating around these days. People make mistakes, it doesn’t mean an entire generation of people is stupider for it.
Just goes to show how good roller coaster precautions are. These are mostly human error.
Chimera’s accident is a huge example of park negligence. The park barely had proper maintenance on this thing and it was running much faster than it was meant to. You can see in POV videos of this ride that it goes *flying* through its midcourse break runs, and an accident on this roller coaster was unfortunately inevitable by the way it was operating.
It was so serious, that the Mexico City government decided to outright close the park permanently.
Regarding the smiler, the reason the 5th train wasn't noticed is because the engineers put it on, but didn't inform the ride operators. When it valleyed, the ride ops checked the location of the 4 known trains, and once located cleared the ride for dispatch and overrode the safety system. Since then, staff are now required to check all cameras to ensure the track is ALSO clear, regardless of if they have located the known trains
Maintenance has to override the system, Ride Ops can't do that themselves. Nonetheless, you are correct.
Electrical engineers weren't informed about the 5th train and the mechanical engineers had left for a break so the Electrical engineers were left to fix the ride so when the 4th train got stuck on the bat wing the Electrical engineers (knowing that there 4 trains) saw 3 trains on the break run and one on the 1st lift hill.
Also ride ops knew there was a fifth train but they were only told to dispatch and after the crash another override switch was added in front of the bat wing so the layout is checked.
The ride ops put the 5th on the track
as someone from the uk, the smiler one was just so tragic. like cause the uk has way less big themeparks than the us it effected the county. was so sad.
It’s more morbid due to the unnerving theme as well, which is being used as an experiment for the “ministry of joy”
@@chazgames3690imagine being stuck there for hours hearing the “ha ha hahaha” theme playing in the background wondering if you will survive
@@vource2670 yeah that’s crazy. It’s bad enough in the queue
As someone who works for merlin, this is what I can say relatively confidently about the smiler incident.
Ride ops will have given the ride to engineering who will have added the 5th train, tested it and given the ride back to the ride operators for another set of testing. The empty train will have valleyed on the last test that the ops sent as guests were sent on the one directly after. After the train stopped on the lift hill, the ride op will have given the ride back to engineering (without seeing the valleyed train) to figure out what was wrong. The engineer called will likely not have been the same engineer who added the 5th train as the engineer thought that there were only 4 trains in operation. The engineer then checked for the other 3 trains and found them. He then will have assumed all was good and that a sensor on a block section had been triggered by something other than a train (things like leaves hit these sensors very often) and he will have overridden the alert and sent the train around the first section which the empty train had been sitting in. This is then when the incident happened
If you want to see what the engineers saw, the camera footage was released and is public on yt.
- I don't want to excuse what happened as there were still a lot of mistakes that happened but thought I should give a better picture as to what happened that day
*I also want to note that I am basing this off of protocol that is happening today which might have changed since the incident*
Never assume a false positive and override the sensor! Make an easier way to check. How about cameras clearly showing every place where the train might valley?
Any idea why the protocol today for Smiler wouldn't have the engineer checking the siding where the 5th train would be stored if it wasn't out on the track? Why wouldn't protocol include verifying the location of every train installed on the track instead of counting to four? Maybe you should suggest they add that to the protocol, it wouldn't be hard to do.
EDIT: bullet point 56 on the last page of the document in my other comment should have been addressed by now but that might not correspond to your role at the park. I appreciate your insight into the organizational factors. The failure to handoff information from one group of employees to another was indeed part of the problem. The case report lists several other things that could have been done better to possibly avoid the injuries.
There's no indication that the engineers attempted to look at the CCTV screen and saw what was in that camera footage that was released. You can read about the various flaws in the method of training these engineers for this work starting with bullet point 35 in this case report.
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/379886/response/916683/attach/html/3/HSE%20Factual%20Report%20of%20The%20Smiler%20Ride%20incident.pdf.html
@@vicvango1443 my information isn't specific to the smiler and so this could very well be the case. But I do believe that failure to handoff information was the main cause of the accident as well as control and engineering being sloppy with their jobs and cutting some corners (control decide whether rides run in harsh weather conditions and I know first hand that they can be slow at responding to changes).
@@FameyFamous im sure there are more and clearer cameras now. but you can see for yourself what the engineers saw here: ruclips.net/video/8DolzxUPBjE/видео.html
On the Quimera one, when it's relocated and the car is running in the video, when it goes on one of the loops it litterally shakes the whole loop
Part of why I feel New Texas Giant is overlooked is there is still feuding over fault. Gerstlaur blames Six Flags for unsafe ops, while Six Flags blames Gestlaur for the trains whose safety system gave the all clear before dispatch.
Six flags fault 100%, NTG and IRat still have those trains for a reason, they are class 5 restraints and haven't had another accident.
I love how much work he puts into these vids. He takes his time to work on them and I love the editing lately. Your on a come up coastoons. Your gonna blow up at some point. Keep
Up the work man
Edit: love the choices of music too. Hell of a good job
nah the music choice is super bad for this kinda music. who tf plays fucking trap music over talking about death
Funny cause I was watching this thinking the opposite. Super low effort. Barely any research for each accident. Wrong information (Smiler). Disappointing
@@mewc0re exactly. Poor and joking video
Love how he hits the spot on making the video feel produced but not too produced. Absolutly amazing video and I always click on your vids when I see them
🤖
Thank you for putting this video together; I actually didn’t know about some of these. Knowledge is power and I think both guests and staff can learn a lot from studying the past.
>doesn't rank accidents as to avoid making light of any single incident
>"She fell to her death from the height of 7.5 alligators"
That’s to add a visualization of the height she fell from
These past two years have been absolutely tragic. The worst and most heartbreaking accidents are the ones that are totally preventable.
For further clarification, the accident on the Smiler was caused by a miscommunication between the ride ops and maintenance. Maintenence added a 5th train to the ride, but didn't tell the ride operators. When that train valleyed, the operators visually confirmed the locations of all 4 trains on the ride. Not knowing a 5th train had been added, they assumed that it was a ghost train. Ghost trains are common since the sensors on the ride are pretty sensitive. That is why they manually overrode the computer system which stopped the following train.
I'm not excusing what happened. I think knowledge is power, and the more clarification we have on what happened, the better
they should've looked at the CCTV
Defo make a series mate, very glad to hear you mention the wind issue for smiler, it's something that gets glossed over in a lot of other videos
I know it's not a roller coaster but the drop tower accident in Florida was scary. what freaked me out was the ops were clearly confused and arguing about something before dispatch. if I see that I'm getting the hell off the ride!
The ops 😂
@@eelovfx9200 ride ops 🤦♂️
@@eelovfx9200if i see ops, im swinging. period
Adding to the Quimera accident, the investigation concluded that the ride wasn't properly maintained, and thus there was negligence in the part of the park. Because of that, the Mexico City Government closed permanently the park and revoked the concession of the operators of the park.
Everyone probably knows this but I wanna clarify it just to be sure, The Smiler has always been the safest coaster at ATR and has been even safer after the crash (The Overiddes panel has been locked until someone higher than a ride op or engineer unlocks it) The machine itself did everything it was supposed to. Please don't worry about your safety on the ride.
Please do worry about your safety. I need shorter queues
coastoons, i know you probably wont see this but i just want you to know your videos are awesome. your music taste is amazing and i love your humor and editing. keep up the great work man
The gp are gonna love this
hopefully
being valleyed while another train is being dispatched and being dispatched while another train is valleyed somewhere both sound equally terrifying
lets goooooo another coastoons video, cant tell how happy I get when I see that little blue dot.
i really enjoy the graphics and the narrator's delivery: just the right amount of goofiness and smartassery.
above posted before i heard "kind of keep it light-hearted" at 8:45-8:46.
this sounds really dumb but thank you for putting different objects to help visualize how tall something was. I struggle with visualization but being able to see it in terms of an everyday object helped alot!
Love ur work man
It's easier if you imagine 10 feet as the lowest part of the roof on a single-story house. 20 feet is the second floor and so on
Thanks for finally uploading
I made a short a couple days ago
Wow I've never heard as much detail regarding any of these before. It got me wondering about the superman coasters I've been on, the checkers all wizzed by slapping the restraints with no pause to lift it, so maybe I could see the amputee guy overlooked. Also after visiting SFOT I never realized how few Spanish speaking visitors understood English and maybe that was a reason for tx giant. I never heard that she told them she was not secured. And finally, Indiana beach has not opened triple loop yet, so I think it's more than paint going on and the state will have to inspect it, etc. Good video though, as always, but more toons!!!!!
7:16 you're right from what I can remember. there was a lack of communication between the operators, and the operators in the station did not know another train had been added to the track. they assumed there were still only 4 trains, so dispatched the other train. (correct me if I'm wrong, just going off what i remember)
"I calculated the odds of this succeeding vs the odds of me doing something incredibly stupid and... i went ahead anyway" -Crow T. Robot
Yaa new upload I haven't been here for long only like a year but he is my favorite youtuber
Babe wake up, Coastoons posted
Go back to bed
Its shocking how many accidents actually happen on steel coasters. However wooden coasters have the least amount of accidents today. Most people view them as dangerous.
5:30 as a person who goes to Darien lake all the time I always see on the rides signs now what limbs you need to ride
I really like your videos. I am a new enthusiast, my first time on the roller coaster was only about 2 months ago. I wonder if you can make a video on European parks.
I am so glad i wasn’t a victim of The Smiler accident. I visited Alton Towers 5 days before the crash.
The Man, The Myth, The Legend, He's Back...
I knew this video is gonna come out three days ago😂😂😂
Good video, very informative and I think you are being super respectful of the victims while explaining what went wrong, how/why it went wrong, and even giving insight into how it can be avoided in the future. I am interested in large commerical airplanes. and like roller coasters, they have such a miniscule chance of crashing and it has to be multiple things going wrong. I think you made this video the perfect blend of informative and respectful, and thats super commendable! I especially appreciate the part at the beginning where you make a point to emphasize that accidents are exceedingly rare.
Im not a roller coaster fanatic (besides what they got at fiesta texas...
You should check out Mentour Pilot's series on commercial airplane accidents then.
ruclips.net/p/PLiNyr6QSO28P2bKMcv2O_lK83jsR0A9-W
And you might also like this Podcast from Rooster Teeth:
ruclips.net/user/Blackboxdown
If you ever go to the uk you need to go Alton towers its really good
Can’t wait
yay New vid
Love you’re content great stuff but I was wondering whitch one do you like better magnum XL 200 or Millennium Force
magnum
The ironic thing is, the Quimera accident is pretty similar with Mindbender accident. Just with different kind of fatality
Both were had the whole bogie assembly just come off.
Both were happen on the most rear train
Both were mainly because of lack of quality part
Both ended in fatality (Despite one is Final Destination 3, and another just slam into the support structure)
And both of them are Schwarzkopf Triple Looper, which like only 2 in the world.
Love you coaster man
The first one reminds me of Goliath at six flags over ga. It one of my favorite rides, but honestly, the restraints that are on there never make me feel safe. I feel like I could easily get out from under it and if for some reason it didn’t stay locked, I’m doomed.
Been watching for awhile and this video convinced me to sub cuz it was done so respectfully 🫡
im quite lucky to be in a coaster accident
(was not shared to the news)
then what happened???
That 150 train joke in the beginning was funny 😂😂😂
a family friend went on a coaster, (idk where) and basically their restraints didn't lock and they tried telling the employees but the employees didn't notice, and so they started going up the chain lift, before the employees noticed them being worried and so they stopped the ride when it had left the station by like halfway.
When I hear Dollywood: *cough cough* *(looks at my necklace souvenir from dollywood)* *hm..*
All jokes aside, it’s terrible how people have to lose their lives to make roller coasters safer. People die since ride operators were negligent.
Fly high, all who died in a roller coaster accident. 🕊️🙏🏻
underrated coatser youtuber
Alright with The Smiler some people have been put off of riding it because of the crash I AM HERE TO TELL YOU WHY YOU SHOULDN’T BE PUT OFF
•after The Smiler Crash the ride became the safest in the park and one of the safest in the world
•I think he said it in the video but the entire accident was down to the operator overriding the ride system and was not the rides fault
•no accident have happened on it for 7 years
DONT BE SCARED BY THE SMILER
I remember chapultepec, México city, the park has fully closed afterwards
This would be a great series bro. RIP to the victims tho
Cant believe the 2nd one... I was sitting thinking that looks identical to the Magnum Force that I rode at my local theme park. To my surprise it is the Magnum force.... shame it hasn't been well looked after.
Derailed? That's horrifying
You was correct about winds and how busy it was
The actual reason of the smiler accident was as it closed down due to the winds, whilst it was closed staff had been told to add a 5th train on the track and didn’t let the engineers know. At the time when it had opened again engineers was still not sure that a fifth train had been added to the tracks, so continued letting passengers on. At this time one test train was still on the track rolling back and fowards whilst one train full of passengers had been dispatched they had gotten stuck on the first lift hill as the next track was occupied with the empty train rolling back and fowards and engineers still did not know about the 5th train, when it had stopped they thought the train was gone so let the people down onto the next track they then collided and 19 and 17 year old girls got the most trauma. Fortunately, no one had died.
But my heart goes out to the 16 passengers who experienced it ❤❤
Right before school starts
BABE WAKE UP COASTOONS UPLOADED
The engineers put an additional train on and didn’t notify the operators, leading to them thinking it was a ghost train, but they neglected to check it visually, which was part of their training
With the smiler, a ride op put another train on, but didn't tell anyone. The rest of the ops had no idea it was on the track let alone that it valleyed.
If you think about it, roller coasters are actually the safest form of transportation. Roller coasters are the only form of transportation where the vehicle is directly attached to a track and at the same time the passengers are directly attached to the vehicle.
wait the smiler ride was 8 YEARS AGO?! ... Ok I feel old I thought it was in 2018 or smthin wth also r.ip to everyone who tragically passed away on any of these rides May their soul rest in peace
Smiler is one of the best rides at Alton Towers. It was a tragic accident but the ride has been made safer with barriers in front of the seats. I’ve rode this many times in the last few years and they are extra extra cautious. Don’t let it ever put you off the ride
You did a great job of balancing with the light heartiness and the true respect for the victims.
I have one question: so you explained that the Smiler accident was fully the operator’s fault. How is something like that handled, in the event of a death?
Is that operator charged with say man slaughter? Or is only the park liable?
From what I remember all the present operators and maintainence were fired (some of them unjustly), the park made a public apology and paid a large fine to the victims.
in the smiler crash, the engineers overid the block safety system because they didn't know the staff added another train, so when the engineers saw 3 trains in the station (+ 1 stuck on the lift) they though everything was good.
As a rollercoaster enthusiast and former ride op I can say that the most dangerous part of riding a rollercoaster is driving to the amusement park. Coaster accidents are always tragic when they occur but thankfully they're pretty rare. Safety is very inherent to ride design and I've noticed a theme that most rollercoaster accidents can be attributed to 1. Ride operator error. 2. Poor maintenance practices. and less common 3. Manufacturer design flaws/manufacturing defects.
That being said amusement parks should be a place of fun where safety isn't a concern for guests and I find it unacceptable that this keeps happening. Parks need to invest time and money into maintenance and ride op training and manufacturers need to take the extra time to ensure their rides are without design flaws or manufacturing errors.
i went to the last one, i didnt even know the last one happened lmao
it was one of my first and probably last roller coasters
Think about it this way: if you die on a roller coaster, then you're one in 750 million
Coastoons would be the best theme park employee
W for playing hardly instrumental in the back
Here is a list of all the roller coasters that operated in the 21st century that I would consider “Unsafe”
Shockwave at Six Flags Great America (1988-2002)
Quimera at La Feia De Chapultepec Mahico (2007-2019, only at this park)
Son of Beast (2000-2009)
I actually can’t quite think of anything else
I remember reading somewhere the military vet was arguing with the ride ops about not being allowed on because he had no legs. And he pulled a Darren to get his way and resulting in him getting flung out of the ride.
the revenge by x soundtrack in the back is just beautiful
The smiler accidents haunt me. If you watch a video taken by someone stood watching the ride, you can hear the screams of joy turn to pure pain and fear. You can see images of faces covered in blood. Horrifying, and it's left victims suffering for life, all because of human error.
esparza actually fell from the overbank before the mcbr great video though
In the case of the NTG accident, the ride should not *physically* have been able to dispatch. It sounds as if this was a case (like the Icon Park drop-tower accident) where the restraint was able to latch, and register as closed, even though it wasn't in a position where it could actually protect the rider. That's a fatality waiting to happen. You can prevent it with seatbelts, but you could also prevent it by the restraint system refusing to latch in that position. The trains were manufactured by Gerstlauer, not RMC, and it caused bad blood between Gerstlauer and Six Flags that continues to the present day, which is why you haven't seen Six Flags parks putting up Euro-Fighters or Infinity Coasters in recent years--though they bought a lot of Gerstlauer spinners before this happened. More recent RMCs use RMC trains.
...now in the case of Icon Park, the restraints had been modified to fit larger riders in such a way that they were unsafe, but here, I don't think Gerstlauer had that excuse--this was a design flaw.
@@MattMcIrvin It was an override, literally nothing changed about the trains after the accident, because the trains themselves are perfectly safe, and are rated as class 5 restraints by the ASTM (the safest possible) And to be class 5, their has to be a redundancy system, whether it's a seatbelt or something internal, and hold your pelvis bone. If it was the case that the train was able to dispatch while the restraint was locked but not holding the rider correctly their would be many more similar accidents with these trains. The common theory is that she fell on the overbank(a partial inversion) but the other coaster with the same trains has a full inversion and has never had an accident before , the odds of this accident being the trains fault are minuscule.
All human error
With the smiler there was a miscommunication with the rides staff and matainance crew so they didnt know a 5th one had been sent off for testing and the maintenance crew said it was all set not knowing the ride staff set another one off or smth like that
bro you are my favourite youtuber and your videos are the best i hope u never leave this channel and go to ur second channel i just LOVE everything u do u make me happy i would quit my job to watch one ur videos and i dont think you'll see this but im trying to be a youtuber and i want tips
if ur tryna be a coaster youtuber then just be unique. there are so many coaster youtube channels that sound the same. super formal and informative. just give it some personality and you’ll be golden. also it takes at least 20 videos to blow up or else it’s luck. don’t quit before you hit that number
@@Coastoons thanks
@@Coastoons i just realized your name is a combo between coasters and cartoons. it's better than cartoasters
I love the smiler it is my favourite ride but I remember way back before I even rode it for the fist time about the crash and it was all over the news here in the uk for days and I think they debated whether to de commission the ride which is sad as it was the staffs fault
I'm really glad they didn't get rid of the Smiler, that accident was not its fault at all. In fact, if the staff just listened to what the computer was saying, nobody would have been hurt.
1:27 kinda wild you didn't put a legoland in Denmark :,) ( because we founded it )
Top 10 Worst roller coaster accidents that has ever happened (What about in history, how does that sound, either one you wanna do)
Well actually, due to a break down of communication, ride opps weren't told about the fifth train, and some how when one of the workers checked the location of the trains, he failed to notice the fifth one that had vally'd
Once on nemesis inferno I had faulty restraints when the guy pulled it done before the operator said “it’s a faulty restraint, good luck” and it left quite an unnerving gap between me and the restraint, but I didn’t want to change seats incase they thought i was gonna stay and dispatched, so I was caught in two minds and decided it was safe enough to stay because it weren’t that deep and I could just hold on and be fine. I was alright and it was more so an inconvenience I felt I couldn’t put my hands up and enjoy the ride after waiting for 90 minutes but it’s alright I guess. Btw I’m not a gp, it genuinely was a fair gap considering I’m skinny but centripetal force probably would’ve kept me in.
Been on that coaster, you get pressed into your seat the entire time. No danger at all
Before i went on the smiler my freind was like "two girls legs got cut off" im like bruh whyyyyyyyy!
They didn’t forget they put on another train, maintenance didn’t tell the ride ops about it, and the block sections failed
I’m dead at 30 feet being described as 30 rulers 😭😭
Because that's clearly more picturable
@@user-wx6ms9rv2m had no idea
i think it was 2017 at Carowinds riding the hurler something broke off a wheel of a car IN front on the train i was in and it made the cars jump like a whip it hurt my neck and my brothers we told the ride ops in the station something broke on the car and they looked at us like we crazy and loaded up the train and sent it back out
BUT COASTOONS I NEED THOSE TWO MILIMETERS OF EJECTOR ON IRON QWAZI!
Right here
Shortly after the smiler accident they took away a lot of the theming but it runs amazingly now but a lot of people avoid it
Good, shorter queues
A little off topic but id the background music Revenge by XXX ?
6:15. Way to put pressure on his nephew.
Video idea: the best woodies in the six flags chain
Are you from Torquay cause that rock is one of the best jumping spots in the area
Crazy how fast shit goes wrong on coasters
0:06 me who waited 6 Hours for Kingda Ka the year it opened 😬😂
one of my criticisms with accident videos is they seem to not cover it in a caring matter, and I respect your approach to this because of that