This wasn't the first fatal incident at Battersea. My mum remembers the Emmett Railway, with its strange locos and carriages in the style of the cartoonist Emmett's machines. 2 trains would run at any one time, but they didn't have the signalling (or block working) that most railways, big or small, have. This meant that one day, one train rear ended another at some speed, and a lady passenger would die.
@@Luubelaar Hell, it blows my mind that we didn't have laws in the US to protect children from horrific abuse until 1973. And people wonder why our Boomers and Gen X are so messed up lol. Even stranger is that during the Black Plague, the British (who were notoriously shitting and drinking from the same rivers) blamed the Jews for the plague, even though the reason the Jews weren't contracting the plague is because they washed their hands and cleaned themselves. Humans (mostly Europeans) have been arrogant idiots for about as long as they've been around lol.
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The Boardwalk at Santa Cruz, CA near where I live has an old wooden rollercoaster that celebrated its 100th anniversary this year. (It's called the Giant Dipper, presumably so it sounded like more of a thrill than the various Big Dippers operated by competitors.) While there have been a few fatalities on it over the decades due to riders deciding not to remain in their seats, there have never been any injuries from mechanical issues. That's no accident. The ride has always been meticulously maintained, with regular updates including automatic braking systems when they became available, is on its third set of cars, and undergoes walking inspections every day before opening and every 2 hours while in operation. With only 3 fatalities over 100 years and more than 68,000,000 riders, it's safer to ride this coaster than it is to get to Santa Cruz from San Jose by car. (No joke that. Highway 17 over the Santa Cruz Mountains was the most dangerous highway in California for many years, and it still sees regular accidents and fatalities.) To not properly maintain a ride like this is to needlessly endanger every rider, who probably climb aboard assuming it's perfectly safe.
@@MisterVercetti The irony of it all is that if they had been convicted, the public may have felt a sense of justice, and the park may have continued to operate for much longer under entirely new management. When we don't get answers or justice, we f*ck right off.
Correct Pennie! I waited through the rest of the video expecting to see an interview or picture of “JOHN COLLINS” whose name is so proudly displayed as “JOHN COLLINS BIG DIPPER”. Maybe he was the original designer or inventor I’m not sure but I was at least expecting an explanation and the fact that this was put down to “just an accident” is absolutely pathetic, I don’t know how the parents dealt with this outcome when their children were killed so horrifically and yet nobody is held responsible! The fact the ride was allowed to reopen I find absolutely mind boggling. Surely following the extensive fire that damaged and destroyed much of the ride months earlier, you would think that there would have been extensive and intensive checking and testing of the entirety of the structure by both the owner and operators as well as health and safety, as well as insurance investigators? I know people tended to just move on with things back then but this is well, I just can’t get my head around it.
Never knew there was rollercoaster in Batteresa Park whilst living in London for 20 years but that was in the 2000s era. It's a shame it took them 50 years to put any sort of memorial. And I do get why people we're angry of how public money is spend ,Alway baffled me too
✊🏻 I rode a rollercoaster once. The high speed whooshing was fun. It was the long, slow grind to the top of the first hill that makes me still not want to do it again twenty years later. 🎢😬
People made fun of me for what was deemed an "irrational fear" of coasters. The more I learn, the more I realize... that fear was fairly justified. I always figured I'd be the one with the luck to end up talked about in one of these videos.
Right up until the 1980s, it was common for workmen to go to the pub at lunchtime for a pint or two. This included builders working high up on buildings.
i was there that day and had been on the big dipper with my mates we left the park about 2 pm and didnt hear about the disaster till watching the TV news that night
The lack of memorial here is so sad. The thought of a survivor coming back and finding zero acknowledgement of the tragedy they went through is just devastating.
@@insertgenericusernamehere2402 Some businesses don't do it for that reason as well as being associated with something so negative. Hell , Disney World has had SEVERAL accidents and a few violent situations that involve fatalities. Yet, we hear practically nothing about it unless covered by true crime and the like.
@@macaylacayton2915Laws and regulations were probably much more lax back then. Unfortunately, lessons are learned from the blood of others. The safety systems we take for granted today were created because of accidents like these.
Incidents like these make me thankful not to have been born a few decades ago when safety standards were so relaxed. Watching someone fall to their death and making your way down the coaster while stepping in others' blood is insane.
We have the Giant Dipper in Santa Cruz, California, that just celebrated its 100 year anniversary back in May. It’s had 3 fatalities, none of which were caused by negligent operators or faulty maintenance. The cars were updated twice I think. The first time was after the second fatality. I’m glad the company that owns and runs the Giant Dipper is keeping up with its care.
Right around 1972, when I was 12 years old, I rode the Giant Dipper against my mom's wishes. She was afraid for my safety. Wish we'd known its excellent safety record; that might've reassured my poor mother. It's a great roller coaster!
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2:47 a.m. here. I've been scrolling through RUclips for over an hour and got stuck on shorts. So freaking glad something intelligent dropped. Woke up in excruciating pain. Cannot lay back down. I love Fascinating Horror.
It maybe worth noting that ambulance men back then didn't have much medical training, about the level of a first aid certificate. So children would only get pre-hospital medical care if there happened to be a doctor visiting the park or one close by that might be summoned to help.
They called what ambulance crews did "scoop & run" back then. The job was basically to get people to hospital ASAP, and hope the patient didn't die on the way.
@@dawnstorm9768, true, paramedics and EMTs were still a pretty new concept in 1972 in the US while ambulances were still basically white hearses. And the paramedics were often firefighters. I don’t think the rolling “emergency room” type of ambulance we know today started being purpose built until the mid 70s
@dawnstorm9768 I'm in the UK born in 1980,when I was about 7 years old I was rushed into hospital having a really bad asthma attack, the ambulance guys literally carried me into the ambulance and all they could do was tell me to just keep breathing while he gave me oxygen, that was it. I'm so glad now paramedics actually have medical knowledge and can do more than just take people to hospital
The story of this was my first introduction to roller coaster accidents. I have since developed a SPIN (autistic special interest) in them, and coasters as a whole. Its very wonderful to see you cover such a thing in your consistently respectful way.
Dude there are so very many roller coaster accidents. And just amusement park ride failures in general. You should totally start up your own channel of epic theme park fails, targeted at neurodivergent peoples. I would totally be a Patreon!❤
@Clownacy do you get irrationally excited and over exuberant at the sheer mention of a hobby? Does the very thought of it make your mind spiral and your heart race? Will you go literal days without eating or sleeping because you cannot physically or mentally break yourself away from the task at hand? Will you go out of your way to avoid other key om facets of your life just to obsess over your passion? If not, then it's not SPIN. It's just "normal hobby."
@@Clownacy Actually, just calling it a special interest would have been just as fine. Special interests are a real thing, and they are more intense than a hobby or interest; however, they are not explicitly autistic. I've never heard of a "SPIN" and it seems completely unnecessary. Like, why bother typing it and then clarifying what it means when one can just say "special interest"? It sends off a red flag that this person is probably a self-diagnosed faker. Most of the autistic people I know (who are actually diagnosed) talk just like anyone else; they're not always trying to slang-ify their symptoms. Basically OP is probably just a kid with a hobby, but your response seems a bit dismissive of special interests as a whole, so I wanted to clarify.
You haven't done a roller coaster story in years! This is a very special episode..a new amusement park horror story. That's what made this channel famous!!
Its always great to hear the voice of this narrator. The mother tongue is unmistakable. Its always a tragedy hearing how a harmless love of fun and excitement can turn deadly in a split second. i remember a fairground accident that happened in the IBM playing fields in Cosham Portsmouth on one guy Faulks night firework display and bonfire. It happened every year and we would meet at our uncles house and walk to the bonfire which was a short walk from their house with our cousins with us. there was an accident in the travelling fair ground one of the rides came off and it landed on the ground with a young girl who was killed and a few more were injured. I don't remember the year it happened but i was there, i saw the fire trucks and ambulances coming onto the grounds we couldn't see much it was dark at this time and we needed to leave to catch the bus back home. our parents were with us too but they didn't want us to stick around to watch what had been a fun night out. It was the late 19702 early 80's maybe it was in the Portsmouth daily news paper. There was another accident in a stationary fair ground in Southsea Portsmouth as well on their roller coaster ride i don't remember if anyone died but i remember hearing what had happened, the thing collapsed it was made of wood then too being right beside the sea the salt from the water would have rotted through the wood in no time. They replaced it a few years later with metal. i have not been able to have fun at fair grounds since those days when a kid should be able to have fun i didn't enjoy them at all. one of their swings gave way too and a young person was badly injured. i think fairs have too laxed rules and regulations for safety and security of the patrons. i haven't been able to go to a fair ground since and i had told my kids when they were kids not to go to the travelling fairs they are dangerous But kids being kids don't listen to their parents much and i have never taken them, if they did go with their friends i would worry about them till they came home, I will never take my grand Daughters to a fair of any kind. Great video i haven't heard about this one. now you have three more accidents to research plus others in the comments section. Good luck!
I'm from California over here in the US and we have a very, very, very similar looking coaster that's also called The Big Dipper at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk amusement park between the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas - which, if I'm remembering right, was similarly built in that ~1920s time frame. I'm assuming it must be a sister/maybe a cousin to this coaster... never knew that it had any siblings so to speak!
Yup, a turn of events that surprised absolutely no viewer here 😂 FH's channel is made possible entirely by greed, corruption and incompetence. And those three qualities tend to combine in people like a formula, as seen on most of FH's content. I've watched almost every FH video to date. I don't think he's covered a single case where the root cause wasn't at least one of those three qualities in humans.
I remember this, the first coaster accident I remember hearing about. I had seen this ride when we lived in London so it stuck in my mind ever since. Back then there was no counselling only those with physical injury would go to hospital and many would go home from he park, they did not even close the park after the accident, many would watch as the emergency workers went to work, very different to today where the whole site would be evacuated and closed off.
People back then weren't obsessed with injury, physically or mentally, like now. Most things were taken in stride. I think most of us turned out okay without some psychologist or would-be holding our hands. Nowadays, a kid gets a boo-boo on their finger and an army of counsellors troop in to mess with their heads.
@@RockwellRhodes Thats right. I went to an old stone built school with thick plaster ceilings mixed with horse hair, there was a huge thunderstorm the likes of which I have never seen since even in these days of our changed climate. A thunderbolt struck and blasted some stone apart right above my desk causing a huge crack in the ceiling, the teacher said my friend and I had better moves desks and the lesson carried on suddenly a huge piece of plaster crashed down on the place we had just moved from. I was shaking with fear but still expected to stay in class and next day was just a normal day, apart from lots of chatter about this huge storm that had done so much damage, not only to my school but to several buildings over a wide area
Real Horror did this when they first started their channel and I have to say; this is one of my favorite things to watch!! I love hearing how everyone basically winged it and it cost so many lives and could've been prevented
Delay, obfuscate, and, above all, make sure there is at least one person you can blame for your own failings. Throw in a bit of intimidation so staff won't report obvious faults and you can ensure no-one can be found guilty.
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If I remember right, this was an older, side-friction design. Most coasters, even at the time, had undercarriage wheels, so they didn't need brakemen. They also had anti-rollback devices by the time this ride was built, so it shouldn't have been able to slide backwards at all.
Of all the baffling things in this video, the one that really boggles my mind is that they didn’t think the children would need counseling. Just because roller coaster accidents hadn’t happened very often yet at that point in history? What does that have to do with the death, blood, fear, and carnage at the scene??? How does that lessen the trauma??? My heart absolutely aches for those babies.
I was lucky enough to ride a vintage roller coaster at St. Kilda Luna Park in the mid 1980s. It was old, the wood moved about an inch when you watched it from the ground close up. And it would be considered tame by modern standards. Except, i dont know why but those unbanked corners were terrifying, and knowing that you had some bloke pulling a pole to brake on his own judgement added to the unsettling feel to the ride. The age of it was palpable. The wood was visibly rotted around the rusted bolts and when you watched it from the que to ride it you could see the whole thing bend and groan whenever the carriage passed. The human "pilot" also scared me. He was a tough scary looking dude and he held your life in his hand, literally. I know why these wooden monsters are rated highly by fans. They are from a time before computer modeling and built by trial and error engineering, and although the modern ones are radical, you know they are sanitised. With the old ones you were just happy for it to end without crashing or collapsing. Thats a scary ride.
Made me laugh when you said The Big Dipper is tame to todays rides, let me tell you as a kid who went regulerly to Battersea that ride was terrifying cars would often leave the tracks and the rickety framework would creak and scream as it went around the far side by the trees, with no restraints in the cars you would have to hang on for dear life, Tame lol
One of the ways to know a group is highly guilty of not fulfilling their obligation to safety, They settled it out of court. I obviously as an American do not really have knowledge of the UK legal system. But here in the USA a business owner is usually quick to settle out of court when they know a jury trial lawsuit will cost them dearly, Will be a total PR crap storm or both.
Let me just preference this by saying I love roller coasters, but the fear of riding one, especially after this tragedy, is valid. No amusement park should be labeled a "death trap."
Here i've got another interesting case that is not really known outside of my own country : the 1967 Innovation fire. There is the Sierre coach crash too, infamous in Switzerland-Belgium recent history.
Thanks for the memories. Not "Forgotten" by me, anyway. I was 13 at the time and I was living in London at walking distance from Battersea Park. I've been at the old Fun Fair loads of times, went there maybe once or twice a month, and my last ride (of many) on the Big Dipper was maybe 2 or 3 weeks before the crash. I was quite impressed by the news, I was never conscious of the danger involved.
I remember your original coverage of this incident and wondered why it disappeared. Good to see it back with a fresh coat of paint. Better still to know you're not the only one who'll see to it this (completely preventable) tragedy isn't truly forgotten.
I witnessed something like that back in the late '90s in New Jersey at a little amusement park on the boardwalk. I was in line to get on the ride of a little roller coaster and the seats were shaped like little eggs. Only two people could fit in it. As it started going up to climb the chain broke and it rolled backwards around the bend and a lady and her daughter were thrown out and hit a big steel beam and we're unfortunately not alive afterwards. I forget the name of that little Park?
Hello Kristian. I know you won't see this comment and this is probably not the place to make requests, but for one of your April videos, why not do summat totally British and do an FH on 'The Finishing Line'? 😉
If you want to know what the park was like at it's heyday, and what the coaster looked like, it appears on the film The Day the Earth caught Fire, 1961. I always wondered where it was and so looked and saw the remains on the modern day map.
In hindsight it would be very inexpensive and simple to add an anti-rollback device to the lift hills. I got to experience such a device in action when I was riding the Great American Scream Machine when the chain came loose and we rolled back down from the top of the hill. We only rolled about a meter before it stopped due to the mechanism.
Things happen all the time and not all are roller coasters remember this. I would still ride on a roller coaster when it is your time it doesn't matter of your on a roller coaster or any other ride.
Tame yes but depends on what you’re describing. The lack of modern safety features that most coasters that were the age of the Big Dipper shared wasn’t tame. The layout however is mildly tame compared to modern day
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"Some of the teenage ride managers drank or smoked canabis and did not pay attention to their duties" gonna be honest, having vital safety protocols in the hands of teenagers shouldn't be a thing, no matter how straight-laced they might be
I can't believe there was a brakeman in the back of the cars, just pulling on a lever, WITHOUT a backup lever for the other set of wheels or something. No backup brakes at all
Amusement parks give me the creeps. Another great video, as usual. Always look forward to them. So many accidents are caused by sheer negligence. Take care. Pat in New Jersey
It is a mystery to me how survivors of the roll back ended up "way off the ground" since the derailment would have happened near the base of the lift hill. How far off the ground was the station?
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One other prominent UK rollercoaster crash was the Smiler accident in 2015. Here's the video I made on that: ruclips.net/video/Q0gsj9Qtyuo/видео.html
This wasn't the first fatal incident at Battersea. My mum remembers the Emmett Railway, with its strange locos and carriages in the style of the cartoonist Emmett's machines. 2 trains would run at any one time, but they didn't have the signalling (or block working) that most railways, big or small, have. This meant that one day, one train rear ended another at some speed, and a lady passenger would die.
It still blows my mind that "health and safety" rules just didn't exist in the past. Sometimes I'm astonished that humans survived at all.
Wow. I can't find much on it, but thanks for turning me on to Roland Emett!
@@Luubelaar Hell, it blows my mind that we didn't have laws in the US to protect children from horrific abuse until 1973. And people wonder why our Boomers and Gen X are so messed up lol. Even stranger is that during the Black Plague, the British (who were notoriously shitting and drinking from the same rivers) blamed the Jews for the plague, even though the reason the Jews weren't contracting the plague is because they washed their hands and cleaned themselves. Humans (mostly Europeans) have been arrogant idiots for about as long as they've been around lol.
@@Luubelaar I find it odd that although this was a strange looking novelty railway, that it had no signalling.
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A more than 50 year old wooden construction in sunny England without proper maintenance. What could possibly go wrong? Those poor kids.
Sunny England. 😂
I’m British, and I must ask. What is “sunny”?
@@The_Mimewar A little-known fact: It's what happens above the permanent cloud cover.
Bit like Grenfell
The reality of it being in a perpetually rainy environment is actually quite a bit worse
The Boardwalk at Santa Cruz, CA near where I live has an old wooden rollercoaster that celebrated its 100th anniversary this year. (It's called the Giant Dipper, presumably so it sounded like more of a thrill than the various Big Dippers operated by competitors.) While there have been a few fatalities on it over the decades due to riders deciding not to remain in their seats, there have never been any injuries from mechanical issues. That's no accident. The ride has always been meticulously maintained, with regular updates including automatic braking systems when they became available, is on its third set of cars, and undergoes walking inspections every day before opening and every 2 hours while in operation.
With only 3 fatalities over 100 years and more than 68,000,000 riders, it's safer to ride this coaster than it is to get to Santa Cruz from San Jose by car. (No joke that. Highway 17 over the Santa Cruz Mountains was the most dangerous highway in California for many years, and it still sees regular accidents and fatalities.)
To not properly maintain a ride like this is to needlessly endanger every rider, who probably climb aboard assuming it's perfectly safe.
Before it was even said, I knew both of those charged would not be convicted. It's like clockwork. Accountability is an extremely rare thing.
It's sickening because they don't get convicted.
No doubt some “monetary considerations” of the dim, smoke-filled back room variety were involved.
@@MisterVercetti The irony of it all is that if they had been convicted, the public may have felt a sense of justice, and the park may have continued to operate for much longer under entirely new management. When we don't get answers or justice, we f*ck right off.
Correct Pennie!
I waited through the rest of the video expecting to see an interview or picture of “JOHN COLLINS” whose name is so proudly displayed as “JOHN COLLINS BIG DIPPER”.
Maybe he was the original designer or inventor I’m not sure but I was at least expecting an explanation and the fact that this was put down to “just an accident” is absolutely pathetic, I don’t know how the parents dealt with this outcome when their children were killed so horrifically and yet nobody is held responsible!
The fact the ride was allowed to reopen I find absolutely mind boggling.
Surely following the extensive fire that damaged and destroyed much of the ride months earlier, you would think that there would have been extensive and intensive checking and testing of the entirety of the structure by both the owner and operators as well as health and safety, as well as insurance investigators?
I know people tended to just move on with things back then but this is well, I just can’t get my head around it.
Never knew there was rollercoaster in Batteresa Park whilst living in London for 20 years but that was in the 2000s era. It's a shame it took them 50 years to put any sort of memorial. And I do get why people we're angry of how public money is spend ,Alway baffled me too
I went or the rollercoaster ride with my late parents. It was a highlight of my life in 1962 in England London. Won't forget the ride. Was wild
It proves that my fear of rollercoasters as a kid wasn't completely unfounded it took my several years to muster the courage to sit in one
Definetly not unfounded, I love them but as fears go it's pretty rationale.
✊🏻 I rode a rollercoaster once. The high speed whooshing was fun. It was the long, slow grind to the top of the first hill that makes me still not want to do it again twenty years later. 🎢😬
Very safe it’s not an irrational fear but the chances of an accident occurring are less likely than spending the day driving around in a car
I've never been on one, and I never will
People made fun of me for what was deemed an "irrational fear" of coasters. The more I learn, the more I realize... that fear was fairly justified. I always figured I'd be the one with the luck to end up talked about in one of these videos.
Taking alcohol and drugs on the job thats beyond negligence
Right up until the 1980s, it was common for workmen to go to the pub at lunchtime for a pint or two. This included builders working high up on buildings.
@nlwilson4892 it helped calm their nerves when they fall off due to an imbalance 😞
@seandelap8587 have you ever seen a carni? They basically run on drugs and alcohol.
Unfortunately back in the 1970's health and safety wasn't really considered.
@@sarahudson108 The 70s were also a decade of heavy drug use and experimentation.
i was there that day and had been on the big dipper with my mates we left the park about 2 pm and didnt hear about the disaster till watching the TV news that night
The lack of memorial here is so sad. The thought of a survivor coming back and finding zero acknowledgement of the tragedy they went through is just devastating.
If I was a survivor of a tragedy I don't think I'd want a memorial, don't want to be reminded of past trauma but that's me
@@insertgenericusernamehere2402 Some businesses don't do it for that reason as well as being associated with something so negative. Hell , Disney World has had SEVERAL accidents and a few violent situations that involve fatalities. Yet, we hear practically nothing about it unless covered by true crime and the like.
How expensive is it for a marble or granite memorial statue? I just don't understand why these memorials are always so controversial and complicated.
@@nysockexchange2204 quite expensive marble isn't cheap
No need for that. Move on.
I haven't forgotten, I was living in the UK at the time and had been on the Big Dipper perhaps a month or two before? A brakeman? Crazy in retrospect
Those in charge should have been held accountable, they ignored employees reporting the brakes not working, and ignored substance abuse.
Most likely on drugs themselves, and the lawyers and judge.
Exactly.
@@scobra5941Yup
Ok who the fuck allowed the employees and/or guests to use drugs?! That’s a safety violation right there
@@macaylacayton2915Laws and regulations were probably much more lax back then. Unfortunately, lessons are learned from the blood of others. The safety systems we take for granted today were created because of accidents like these.
Incidents like these make me thankful not to have been born a few decades ago when safety standards were so relaxed. Watching someone fall to their death and making your way down the coaster while stepping in others' blood is insane.
Could still happen today though...
Makes us tougher
People in the future will probably think the same thing about us today.
@@Rincypoopooyou don’t get used to those things. You only become more traumatized.
@@chadcovey1626less likely now that safety standards are stricter and safety mechanisms are improved
"We would like a memorial"
"Yes, we will get right on that"
...A few moments later...
"We planted a tree."
We have the Giant Dipper in Santa Cruz, California, that just celebrated its 100 year anniversary back in May. It’s had 3 fatalities, none of which were caused by negligent operators or faulty maintenance. The cars were updated twice I think. The first time was after the second fatality. I’m glad the company that owns and runs the Giant Dipper is keeping up with its care.
Right around 1972, when I was 12 years old, I rode the Giant Dipper against my mom's wishes. She was afraid for my safety. Wish we'd known its excellent safety record; that might've reassured my poor mother. It's a great roller coaster!
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It is 530 am where I am in the USA. I just woke up, and this is just, exactly what I want to watch. Thanks!
Same!! Except falling asleep now😂!
2:47 a.m. here. I've been scrolling through RUclips for over an hour and got stuck on shorts. So freaking glad something intelligent dropped. Woke up in excruciating pain. Cannot lay back down. I love Fascinating Horror.
Me too! Hey y’all 👋🏾💕
Why are we all awake so early?! 3:00 am here in California
@@Emzzz78 Insomniacs Unite
Sad that a memorial didn't get put there sooner. Tragic. Love your videos FH. They are short, concise, no filler & and they don't take an hour or 2.
It maybe worth noting that ambulance men back then didn't have much medical training, about the level of a first aid certificate. So children would only get pre-hospital medical care if there happened to be a doctor visiting the park or one close by that might be summoned to help.
They called what ambulance crews did "scoop & run" back then. The job was basically to get people to hospital ASAP, and hope the patient didn't die on the way.
@@stephendavies6949Pretty much. The idea of a paramedic has only been around for 50 years, at least here in the US.
@@dawnstorm9768, true, paramedics and EMTs were still a pretty new concept in 1972 in the US while ambulances were still basically white hearses. And the paramedics were often firefighters. I don’t think the rolling “emergency room” type of ambulance we know today started being purpose built until the mid 70s
@dawnstorm9768 I'm in the UK born in 1980,when I was about 7 years old I was rushed into hospital having a really bad asthma attack, the ambulance guys literally carried me into the ambulance and all they could do was tell me to just keep breathing while he gave me oxygen, that was it. I'm so glad now paramedics actually have medical knowledge and can do more than just take people to hospital
The story of this was my first introduction to roller coaster accidents. I have since developed a SPIN (autistic special interest) in them, and coasters as a whole. Its very wonderful to see you cover such a thing in your consistently respectful way.
Dude there are so very many roller coaster accidents. And just amusement park ride failures in general. You should totally start up your own channel of epic theme park fails, targeted at neurodivergent peoples. I would totally be a Patreon!❤
It's called a 'hobby'. Having a hobby is normal.
@Clownacy do you get irrationally excited and over exuberant at the sheer mention of a hobby? Does the very thought of it make your mind spiral and your heart race? Will you go literal days without eating or sleeping because you cannot physically or mentally break yourself away from the task at hand? Will you go out of your way to avoid other key om facets of your life just to obsess over your passion?
If not, then it's not SPIN. It's just "normal hobby."
@@Clownacy Actually, just calling it a special interest would have been just as fine. Special interests are a real thing, and they are more intense than a hobby or interest; however, they are not explicitly autistic. I've never heard of a "SPIN" and it seems completely unnecessary. Like, why bother typing it and then clarifying what it means when one can just say "special interest"? It sends off a red flag that this person is probably a self-diagnosed faker. Most of the autistic people I know (who are actually diagnosed) talk just like anyone else; they're not always trying to slang-ify their symptoms.
Basically OP is probably just a kid with a hobby, but your response seems a bit dismissive of special interests as a whole, so I wanted to clarify.
You haven't done a roller coaster story in years! This is a very special episode..a new amusement park horror story. That's what made this channel famous!!
I can guarantee you that the UK hasn't forgotten this crash, I never stop bloomin hearing about it anytime I go to a theme park.
Its always great to hear the voice of this narrator. The mother tongue is unmistakable. Its always a tragedy hearing how a harmless love of fun and excitement can turn deadly in a split second. i remember a fairground accident that happened in the IBM playing fields in Cosham Portsmouth on one guy Faulks night firework display and bonfire. It happened every year and we would meet at our uncles house and walk to the bonfire which was a short walk from their house with our cousins with us. there was an accident in the travelling fair ground one of the rides came off and it landed on the ground with a young girl who was killed and a few more were injured. I don't remember the year it happened but i was there, i saw the fire trucks and ambulances coming onto the grounds we couldn't see much it was dark at this time and we needed to leave to catch the bus back home. our parents were with us too but they didn't want us to stick around to watch what had been a fun night out. It was the late 19702 early 80's maybe it was in the Portsmouth daily news paper. There was another accident in a stationary fair ground in Southsea Portsmouth as well on their roller coaster ride i don't remember if anyone died but i remember hearing what had happened, the thing collapsed it was made of wood then too being right beside the sea the salt from the water would have rotted through the wood in no time. They replaced it a few years later with metal. i have not been able to have fun at fair grounds since those days when a kid should be able to have fun i didn't enjoy them at all. one of their swings gave way too and a young person was badly injured. i think fairs have too laxed rules and regulations for safety and security of the patrons. i haven't been able to go to a fair ground since and i had told my kids when they were kids not to go to the travelling fairs they are dangerous But kids being kids don't listen to their parents much and i have never taken them, if they did go with their friends i would worry about them till they came home, I will never take my grand Daughters to a fair of any kind. Great video i haven't heard about this one. now you have three more accidents to research plus others in the comments section. Good luck!
Wow!! I was 2 days old when this happened!! Growing up I was far too scared to go on rollercoasters!! Thank goodness for that!!
I'm from California over here in the US and we have a very, very, very similar looking coaster that's also called The Big Dipper at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk amusement park between the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas - which, if I'm remembering right, was similarly built in that ~1920s time frame. I'm assuming it must be a sister/maybe a cousin to this coaster... never knew that it had any siblings so to speak!
As always, your respect for those killed is appreciated.
“Make in your mouth the words that were our names” Archibald Macleish
Bad maintenance and nobody behind bars as per usual eh.
Yup, a turn of events that surprised absolutely no viewer here 😂 FH's channel is made possible entirely by greed, corruption and incompetence. And those three qualities tend to combine in people like a formula, as seen on most of FH's content.
I've watched almost every FH video to date. I don't think he's covered a single case where the root cause wasn't at least one of those three qualities in humans.
@@eeeweeerttiThere was Pompeii, the Tangiwai Bridge, the Carrington Event, and the Tunguska Event.
I remember this, the first coaster accident I remember hearing about. I had seen this ride when we lived in London so it stuck in my mind ever since. Back then there was no counselling only those with physical injury would go to hospital and many would go home from he park, they did not even close the park after the accident, many would watch as the emergency workers went to work, very different to today where the whole site would be evacuated and closed off.
People back then weren't obsessed with injury, physically or mentally, like now. Most things were taken in stride. I think most of us turned out okay without some psychologist or would-be holding our hands. Nowadays, a kid gets a boo-boo on their finger and an army of counsellors troop in to mess with their heads.
@@RockwellRhodes Thats right. I went to an old stone built school with thick plaster ceilings mixed with horse hair, there was a huge thunderstorm the likes of which I have never seen since even in these days of our changed climate. A thunderbolt struck and blasted some stone apart right above my desk causing a huge crack in the ceiling, the teacher said my friend and I had better moves desks and the lesson carried on suddenly a huge piece of plaster crashed down on the place we had just moved from. I was shaking with fear but still expected to stay in class and next day was just a normal day, apart from lots of chatter about this huge storm that had done so much damage, not only to my school but to several buildings over a wide area
Real Horror did this when they first started their channel and I have to say; this is one of my favorite things to watch!! I love hearing how everyone basically winged it and it cost so many lives and could've been prevented
Hmmmmm
Typical, no one held accountable. That makes me really mad! RIP Kids. Great Sad Video. Thank You!
Thank you for covering this. Although I was 13 at time of this incident, I only heard about it on the 50th anniversary 2 years ago.
You always do such a respectful job of converting these accidents ❤
Typically nobody was held responsible or found guilty of dereliction of duty. Always the case.
Delay, obfuscate, and, above all, make sure there is at least one person you can blame for your own failings. Throw in a bit of intimidation so staff won't report obvious faults and you can ensure no-one can be found guilty.
As the saying is - health and safety legislation is written in blood.
What a wonderful surprise upon waking at 4am! Coffee and an interesting video. I'm so impressed with the number of subscriptions. I've been a su subscriber since you only had 12,000. Brilliant work! Cheers😊
This channel has turned me into an unlicensed construction inspector.
If I remember right, this was an older, side-friction design. Most coasters, even at the time, had undercarriage wheels, so they didn't need brakemen. They also had anti-rollback devices by the time this ride was built, so it shouldn't have been able to slide backwards at all.
Of all the baffling things in this video, the one that really boggles my mind is that they didn’t think the children would need counseling. Just because roller coaster accidents hadn’t happened very often yet at that point in history? What does that have to do with the death, blood, fear, and carnage at the scene??? How does that lessen the trauma??? My heart absolutely aches for those babies.
I was lucky enough to ride a vintage roller coaster at St. Kilda Luna Park in the mid 1980s. It was old, the wood moved about an inch when you watched it from the ground close up. And it would be considered tame by modern standards. Except, i dont know why but those unbanked corners were terrifying, and knowing that you had some bloke pulling a pole to brake on his own judgement added to the unsettling feel to the ride. The age of it was palpable. The wood was visibly rotted around the rusted bolts and when you watched it from the que to ride it you could see the whole thing bend and groan whenever the carriage passed. The human "pilot" also scared me. He was a tough scary looking dude and he held your life in his hand, literally. I know why these wooden monsters are rated highly by fans. They are from a time before computer modeling and built by trial and error engineering, and although the modern ones are radical, you know they are sanitised. With the old ones you were just happy for it to end without crashing or collapsing. Thats a scary ride.
Made me laugh when you said The Big Dipper is tame to todays rides, let me tell you as a kid who went regulerly to Battersea that ride was terrifying cars would often leave the tracks and the rickety framework would creak and scream as it went around the far side by the trees, with no restraints in the cars you would have to hang on for dear life, Tame lol
I think he means tame as in design - tracks not doing loops etc. Sounds like it was terrifying to ride!
Always happy to listen to a new horror story on my way to work
My mom *never* let my brother and I ride non permanent roller coasters, or wooden coasters until we were like 14. Makes sense
and once you were 14 she didn't give a shit!
One of the ways to know a group is highly guilty of not fulfilling their obligation to safety, They settled it out of court. I obviously as an American do not really have knowledge of the UK legal system. But here in the USA a business owner is usually quick to settle out of court when they know a jury trial lawsuit will cost them dearly, Will be a total PR crap storm or both.
Let me just preference this by saying I love roller coasters, but the fear of riding one, especially after this tragedy, is valid. No amusement park should be labeled a "death trap."
Always so horrifying! Children just trying to have a great time at play!! RIP 5 lost souls
I wouldn't miss my favourite tambourine fueled RUclips show for anything in the world!
Such a shame that it takes a disaster to wake people up. And this has happened over and over again throughout the years.
The best are the stand up ones. Couldn't get enough in my younger days. 63 now and might be rough on my spine but I'd go in a flash. 🤗
Across the Pond here-that incident is nightmare inducing.
Here i've got another interesting case that is not really known outside of my own country : the 1967 Innovation fire. There is the Sierre coach crash too, infamous in Switzerland-Belgium recent history.
Thanks for the memories. Not "Forgotten" by me, anyway. I was 13 at the time and I was living in London at walking distance from Battersea Park. I've been at the old Fun Fair loads of times, went there maybe once or twice a month, and my last ride (of many) on the Big Dipper was maybe 2 or 3 weeks before the crash. I was quite impressed by the news, I was never conscious of the danger involved.
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I remember your original coverage of this incident and wondered why it disappeared. Good to see it back with a fresh coat of paint. Better still to know you're not the only one who'll see to it this (completely preventable) tragedy isn't truly forgotten.
15 minutes until 6am and this is just what was needed to drift asleep to!!
FUN FACT! my dad was gonna go here with his family, back when he was a kid. The place closed before they got there because of this.
Been waiting for this one. I think at this point there's only two remakes left to do?
Reminds me of the monorail crash at the 1968 Texas Hemisfair in San Antonio
The whole Festival of Britain thing sounds like the Millenium dome almost 50 years later. Some things never change I guess
There was a wooden rollercoaster at the Perth Royal Show called the Wild Mouse too. It was a lot smaller. It always shook because of the wooden frame.
I witnessed something like that back in the late '90s in New Jersey at a little amusement park on the boardwalk. I was in line to get on the ride of a little roller coaster and the seats were shaped like little eggs. Only two people could fit in it. As it started going up to climb the chain broke and it rolled backwards around the bend and a lady and her daughter were thrown out and hit a big steel beam and we're unfortunately not alive afterwards. I forget the name of that little Park?
Hello Kristian. I know you won't see this comment and this is probably not the place to make requests, but for one of your April videos, why not do summat totally British and do an FH on 'The Finishing Line'? 😉
Good morning!
Oh thank goodness for this escape 😊
I'm glad they are going to have a memorial.
I saw an article about this in the Guardian recently and thought it was a good topic for you
I saw the title and thought it was the Blackpool Big Dipper.
"I'm not going on Big Dipper, it isn't safe!"
Bloody Hell, the warning signs that the break's weren't workign were all there.
If you want to know what the park was like at it's heyday, and what the coaster looked like, it appears on the film The Day the Earth caught Fire, 1961. I always wondered where it was and so looked and saw the remains on the modern day map.
The coaster nerds (including myself) have entered the chat.
You should make a video on tornados, the 2011 or 1974 super outbreaks or even a singular one. They are horrific
we had a big dipper at camden park in WV. wow
Was there the day before with my Sister, didn't go on the big dipper though, tragedy the next day brought our mortality into focus.
As soon as you said the ride was from southport i knew it was over
In hindsight it would be very inexpensive and simple to add an anti-rollback device to the lift hills. I got to experience such a device in action when I was riding the Great American Scream Machine when the chain came loose and we rolled back down from the top of the hill. We only rolled about a meter before it stopped due to the mechanism.
drinking and taking drugs while on duty? are they hippies left from the 60's era?
Still common in the early 70s
Common theme will all these videos is that the people responsible never get punished.
I knew “Ride The Cyclone” was a documentary disguised as a musical.
Can you do the Blackpool pleasure one! Grand national?
Things happen all the time and not all are roller coasters remember this. I would still ride on a roller coaster when it is your time it doesn't matter of your on a roller coaster or any other ride.
Tame yes but depends on what you’re describing. The lack of modern safety features that most coasters that were the age of the Big Dipper shared wasn’t tame. The layout however is mildly tame compared to modern day
They mark the country’s comeback from the War with a festival whose posters kinda look like a swastika. Make it make sense, people.
I noticed that too
Hitler counted on the UK joining Germany in its conquest.
There were a lot of Nazi supporters in the UK before WW2.
Maybe it's a subliminal presentation that the Brits really did love Adolf? 😂
It's not a swastika. It's your brain making the association.
Only if you think any design with 4 points looks like a swastika.
It really looks nothing like a swastika
"Some of the teenage ride managers drank or smoked canabis and did not pay attention to their duties" gonna be honest, having vital safety protocols in the hands of teenagers shouldn't be a thing, no matter how straight-laced they might be
There was a Dipper coaster at one of the Six Flags, I think it was the Little Dipper though. Kinda funny that they share the name though.
0:59 Just me or did anyone else think the statue with the helmet was a man with a big nose, a very French looking moustache and pouty lips
Wow... a government spending money on stuff that isn't necessary? Im shocked
I can't believe there was a brakeman in the back of the cars, just pulling on a lever, WITHOUT a backup lever for the other set of wheels or something. No backup brakes at all
Could you do a video on the Sankebetsu brown bear incident ?
re-upload or are you using AI to make your videos vro
Sorry what is "half turn"? Is that related to the season, or day temp, or something else?
Half term - half of a school term. In the UK they generally have some time off.
@@andreagriffiths3512 ah great. In the US we would call it 'summer break'
The words are "half term": it's a two ir three-day break. In the middle of a school semester.
@@MegaSuperEnrique oh bless you
@@MegaSuperEnrique ah though they have term breaks and summer break too.
Thats my hand @ 4:27
No it's not
@@Kolbua Why shouldn't it be? It has to be somebody's. And who who in all seriousness would claim it was when it wasn't?
The Thrill of the Coaster is not the ride; it's the fear that you might DIE! 🤔🙊
Amusement parks give me the creeps. Another great video, as usual. Always look forward to them. So many accidents are caused by sheer negligence. Take care. Pat in New Jersey
I got Lindsey Buckingham stuck in my head now. 🎶Holiday Road🎶
Reason #1 why I don’t ride wooden coasters. Even the most modern trains are rickety and very dangerous.
first also whens the next facinating failure??
You called?
@@transportabelleAlso reporting for duty....
@@transportabelleThere's nothing fascinating about you mate
Countries really have a hard time holding anyone accountable for industrial/architectural disasters, don't they?
Lack of inspections and neglect is a guaranteed accident waiting to happen. Everyday driving on our public roads is more riskier than a rollercoaster.
It is a mystery to me how survivors of the roll back ended up "way off the ground" since the derailment would have happened near the base of the lift hill. How far off the ground was the station?
I don't do Coasters period....