Amusement Park Accidents That Will Give You Nightmares

What They’re Not Telling You Might Kill You

Eleven incidents went unreported on the Willard’s Whizzer attraction at California’s Great America theme park before a 13-year-old boy was killed by the ride. Two trains on the speed racer roller coaster collided in 1980. The accident injured eight passengers and killed a boy. It was then discovered by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission that there was a braking system malfunction that the park knew about, but let the ride continue to run anyway. Marriott Corporation paid $70,000 in the civil penalty action that followed.