Amusement Park Accidents News

The state's water park regulator said it appears a family was injured on a new slide because the four people piled onto one raft weighed between 850 and 900 pounds - much heavier than the posted limit.

East Lampeter Township Police say the 44 year old woman's finger got caught in the safety bar on the "Sky Ride". It happened Saturday evening.

Several weeks ago, a 17-year-old boy was struck by a roller coaster and killed at the Six Flags theme park in Atlanta.

Thirty people have been hurt at a theme park ride in Sweden when a swinging ride collapsed.

Five young Norwegians were among those injured, some seriously, when a ride at the popular Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg, Sweden suddenly collapsed and crashed to the ground Tuesday evening.

At least 18 people were injured Tuesday when a ride at a Swedish amusement park collapsed, police and local media said.

A theme park ride collapsed Tuesday in a city in western Sweden, injuring at least 18 people, officials said.

An amusement park accident that injured four will slow but not stop construction of new, wilder rides, say industry insiders An amusement park arms race that has seen the size and speed of rides on a constant ...

Oakey Spring Missionary Baptist Church members Yolanda Martin and Annie McCreary watch as Reginald Edwards comforts Asia Ferguson III, right, whose son died at Six Flags Over Georgia on Saturday.

Keenan High student died after being hit by roller coaster SPRINGFIELD - The skies darkened and thundered, and raindrops fell on a pained Asia Ferguson as he gazed toward the cemeterywhere he buried his father ...

A horrible theme park accident on Saturday afternoon left a teenager dead. Pak officials said the 17-year-old boy was decapitated by a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in Austell.

Perhaps its the word amusement that helps make amusement park accidents seem so devastating.

Attorneys for a teenager whose feet were severed on an amusement park ride last summer want to add two of her friends to a lawsuit against the park.

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State investigators will release their report today on the amusement park accident that severed a teenager's feet.

The Kentucky Department of Agriculture says it plans to release a report Friday on an amusement park accident in Louisville that severed a teenager's feet.

Officials at a Branson, Missouri theme park say three people were injured when high winds knocked part of a tree onto a trolley.

“It took my legs being taken from me, which people take for granted everyday, for things to change and that's sad”

The Kentucky girl who lost her legs in an amusement park accident is telling her story to Congress. via WFIE-TV Evansville

A Massachusetts congressman hopes a Kentucky girl whose feet were severed on an amusement park ride last year will help persuade Congress to pass legislation that would subject such rides to federal regulation. via WKYT-TV Lexington

14-year-old Kaitlyn Lassiter, who lost both legs in an amusement park accident last year, speaks about a bill in Congress to toughen federal oversight of amusement park rides. (May 14) via ClipSyndicate