Girls feet cut off on rollercoaster? [Archive]

aaron

06-21-2007, 10:38 PM

And this is why I try to stay away from rollercoasters.

Officials said they got the call around 5 p.m. Thursday, and both her feet were detached at the ankle.According to MetroSafe dispatch supervisors, the girl was riding the Superman Tower of Power, which is 177 feet tall and drops riders at 54 miles per hour. According to Kentucky Kingdom, the girl was injured when the ride malfunctioned.

http://www.wlky.com/news/13547817/detail.html

jojobeans1120

06-21-2007, 10:43 PM

:omg: We're leaving for Disney World in the morning. I REALLY didn't need to see something like this the day before! LOL

virgo

06-21-2007, 10:43 PM

Yeah, I was gonna post this. Happened literally in my backyard. It's awful.

fuzzis

06-21-2007, 10:56 PM

I love, love, love rollercoasters. Love them. Giggle hysterically.

What that girl was on was not a roller coaster. You couldn't pay me to get on one of those drop thingies. Never.

gonefishin

06-21-2007, 11:31 PM

I got on one of these at what used to be Jazzland in LA. It was pretty cool. Had more fun watching people ride it than riding it. The faces they made were hilarious!!!!:laugh:

dream member

06-22-2007, 12:17 AM

I love, love, love rollercoasters. Love them. Giggle hysterically.

What that girl was on was not a roller coaster. You couldn't pay me to get on one of those drop thingies. Never.

I actually agree with that. You couldn't give me money to jump on that badboy!

Anyone see Ghostship?

ComputerDude

06-22-2007, 07:43 AM

Happened literally in my backyard.You have an entire amusement park in your backyard?
Can I bring my son over to play?

pEtAl mIsFiT

06-22-2007, 10:02 AM

how sad....

virgo

06-22-2007, 10:59 AM

You have an entire amusement park in your backyard?
Can I bring my son over to play?

Well, I live in Louisville. It was kind of a figure of speech. Kentucky Kingdom is like five minutes from my house. :)

ComputerDude

06-22-2007, 11:06 AM

Well, I live in Louisville. It was kind of a figure of speech. Kentucky Kingdom is like five minutes from my house. :)
I assumed as much. I was just being cheeky. :smt118

Fish-Bait

06-22-2007, 11:07 AM

*Warning clicking on the link will either make you puke or laugh*

Every time something is mentioned about feet on here I have a mental scar from this (http://dermatology.cdlib.org/124/case_presentations/pseudomamma/conde.html). Thanks JMB for this (http://www.myhattiesburg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17903&highlight=gellin).

virgo

06-22-2007, 11:08 AM

I assumed as much. I was just being cheeky. :smt118

LOL. You should change your avatar to "cheeky" then! :) :smt118

daisy

06-22-2007, 12:11 PM

Hermione

06-22-2007, 12:32 PM

Some years ago when I lived in Bowling Green KY, a student at WKU had both feet amputated when her car went through a guardrail. She was driving back to campus on an icy road because the university had decided not to cancel classes for bad weather. A year or so after the accident, the newspaper did a follow up on the story. It's unbelievable how disabling this injury actually is. It's very hard to walk on two prosthetic feet, and even in other activities her balance was severely affected. Plus there were body-image issues, depression, etc. Virgo, since you've got one of the pre-eminent sites for limb reattachment up there, is there any word on whether efforts were made to reattach the feet?

virgo

06-22-2007, 01:03 PM

I am not sure whether they were able to reattach her feet. But here is an update (http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070622/ZONE06/70622013). Very little information is being released. Apparently, Six Flags has closed three other rides at other parks that are similar to the one here in Kentucky.

daisy

06-22-2007, 01:17 PM

My heart goes out to the injured, their families and the riders who witnessed that.

ComputerDude

06-22-2007, 01:32 PM

The article I read last night said something about her feet being wrapped in a cable which is how they got severed. The article linked above sounds like a whipping cable sliced them off. Either way it's a horrible accident. If they were sliced off there's probably a better chance for re-attachment since they were most likely cleanly severed.
(just a guess)

Hermione

06-22-2007, 01:35 PM

That's true -- it's crush injuries that are more difficult.

ComputerDude

06-22-2007, 02:06 PM

That's true -- it's crush injuries that are more difficult.And torn off too???

Hermione

06-22-2007, 02:20 PM

We've reached the outer boundaries of my knowledge on this subject (just worked for doctors, didn't be one. )

Michelle

06-22-2007, 07:17 PM

When I went to Six Flags in Atlanta on a high school field trip, several people got stuck at the top of one of those rides.

aaron

06-22-2007, 09:02 PM

Her feet were reattached today through surgery.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/22/six.flags.accident/index.html

virgo

06-22-2007, 10:57 PM

Where does it say they were reattched? I saw the part about surgery, not about the reattachment....?

jmb

06-22-2007, 11:03 PM

Her feet were recovered by Six Flags staff and were sent to the hospital with her, McLean said. It doesn't state they were reattached, but this gave hope to the thought.

Astra

06-22-2007, 11:03 PM

A lot of places are mentioning reattachment in their headlines, but the stories aren't specifying. I wonder if the stories retracted that bit later or something due to privacy or something?

virgo

06-22-2007, 11:12 PM

Yeah, I just watched the local news. There has been NO reattachment. She is still in serious condition at the hospital.

53NewYorker

06-23-2007, 12:32 AM

If I'm reading this story right, the ride was once the 'Hellevator' and there's a 'visitor' named Kenneth Lay walking around that day who managed to get quoted. As if the story wasn't grotesque enough already...

aaron

06-23-2007, 10:09 AM

Yeah, I got this article from a blog and just read the comments that they were reattached. He's now admitted he was wrong.

MC69TA

06-23-2007, 03:35 PM

http://www.rideaccidents.com/

"RideAccidents.com
is the world's single most comprehensive, detailed, updated, accurate, and complete source of amusement ride accident reports and related news. The site includes a record of fatal amusement ride accidents in the United States since 1972, and, for the past nine years, has recorded all types of accidents,"

Conveyor Belt

06-23-2007, 05:04 PM

Reattachment is harder when things are ripped off as opposed to sliced off.

virgo

07-13-2007, 10:32 PM

Just wanted to give everyone an up date. One of the girl's feet was reattached. The other foot was too damaged. She and her family filed a lawsuit yesterday against Six Flags and they released the 911 tapes today from witnesses who saw what happened. Very chilling.

Here are the 911 tapes. (http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070713/NEWS01/70713044)