A toddler has tumbled from a roller coaster in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and has been airlifted to hospital, in what has been a horror week of theme park accidents across America.
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A Westmoreland County emergency dispatcher said earlier that the child appeared to have fallen off the ride.
The park spokesman wouldn’t say how the accident occurred, but said the incident happened during the middle part of the ride, said KDKA.
The park’s website says the Rollo Coaster consists of two trains that carry riders “up and down along a wooded hillside then turn around in a swooping curve”.
“The other two came right behind her”, he said.
An inspector had visited the park on Thursday, 11 August but Croushore noted that the rides are inspected daily. That incident left a 6-year-old girl with a traumatic brain injury. It passed an inspection on Saturday but will stay closed until an investigation ends.
The roller coaster does not require seatbelts and has a height requirement of 36 inches.
The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) reminds thrill seekers that the odds of being seriously injured at an amusement park in the USA are 1 in 16 million. The department is responsible for inspecting and registering amusement rides under the Amusement Ride Safety Act.
A phone message left by InsideEdition.com with the Idlewild park Thursday night was not immediately returned. Caleb Schwab was decapitated Sunday while riding Verruckt, the world’s tallest waterslide, at the Schlitterbahn WaterPark.
Remmert did not have much information on the incident and neither did the supervisor of the state’s Amusement Ride Safety Division, Joseph Filoromo.
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“There are no federal requirements for oversight or reporting as far as injuries or fatalities for this industry”, said Deborah Hersman, president and CEO of the National Safety Council.
