2 Facts about Roller Coasters: 1: Nearly every roller coaster accident was the operators fault 2: If it gets stuck, its working properly

A good friend of mine lost his little brother, on a coaster accident my senior year of high school. Rest in piece Patrick. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 24 years.

One other sad thing about the last story, Calebs older brother saw the whole thing as he was waiting at the bottom for Caleb to get off of the ride.

didnt mention the two girls that wanted to switch places mid ride. they held the safety bar down so the ride operator thought it was locked in place. the one girl fell from the ride. thats why they make you go hands up when they check.

Keep in mind, you have a greater chance of dying on your way to the theme park, than you do at the park itself.

Most of the time when people die at an amusement park it's because the people are careless or they take place at places that could barley qualify as an official amusement park. You are more likely to die on you way to the park than dying on an amusement ride. You are also more likely to be struck by lighting 3 times than to get a serious injury on a roller coaster.

This is one of the main reasons I was afraid of roller coasters when I was little. And I'm still afraid of them to this day. Not only because they're fast, I was scared that I could throw up, and sometimes my dad would tell me and my brother that we were going to ride one. He pretty much did that to scare us when we were kids.

Me : *likes roller coaster* The Infographics Show : I'm about to do what's called, a pro gamer move

If Final Destination has taught me one thing, it's that Roller Coasters can be lethal

Another thing about the smiler: rollercoaster rides are usually very safe when it comes to keeping trains from colliding. Normally, another train would be stopped before entering a section that is in use, but the ride operators manually over-rid the program that keeps crashes from happening, and therefore, the 2 trains crashed.

I was at Great Adventure a week before the fire. The Haunted house was very dark and disorganized to say the least. We didn't go back to the park for like 2 years after that happened.

I was suspecting the infamous Alton Towers incident appearing on this list. It’s something I’ll never forget, especially considering the sheer level of coverage it got when it first broke out and the circumstances discovered around it soon after. Despite this and a whole load of other similar events, I don’t really fear rollercoasters or any high-velocity theme park rides, but rather the people working within the parks that slip the problems through the cracks whether they know about them or not.

I remember the smiler incident. I held an annual pass at time and there was a lot of worry among park goers but I went on the Smiler as soon as re-opened and its great. These are horrible accidents but they are very unlikely to happen to you

I enjoyed the irl footage teamed with the animation!!

Literally going to Cedar Point for the first time tomorrow. Thanks for this. 😅

Your work rate is actually insane, props to you sir!

I just went to Adventureland yesterday… so glad I didn’t see this before I left😭, Rest In Peace to everyone who had passed in these horrific ways. At least their last day on earth was fun❤️

The reason the crash at alton towers because one of the employees there released the cart with customers in when the empty carriage didn't make its way point. It was human error since the empty carriage never reached a particular point the carriage with customers should never have been released.

Just in time for National Rollercoaster Day 2021 today on August 16! Awesome coincidence! :D

For anyone who really likes roller coaster stories, I recommend Fantastic Horror (who does fires, explosions, etc) and Defunctland (who does theme parks)

This needs a show on Netflix

imagine seeing a head fall off at an execution and the head just says "ouch."

I worked at an amusement park. They ran the ride without people for three turns, then filled the seats with employees and ran it a few more. They said it was a job benefit. Never been a fan of roller coasters, I declined. A benefit? They are testing the rides. Not so sure if it was a benefit; it was one I never appreciated... We never had an accident, and our technicians were borderline obsessed. It was like a ship, they loved her. Best possible situation.

I live near Dreamworld where that accident happened in Australia. That ride is the slowest, most unassuming ride you could be on despite the word "Rapids" being in the name. It's not heart racing or anything, so it was absolutely shocking when that malfunction happened on a ride like that and killed those poor people. It was so shocking that First Responders had to be counselled and some ended up resigning from their jobs. So sad.

Smiler was human error, the engineers didn't know the test car was still on the track and the safety systems in place stopped the ride and it was manually overridden.

Yeah after watching Final Destination 3 I was never going on a roller coaster. After watching THIS, I’m still holding true to it

Whoa, this is basically every Fascinating Horrors video in one lol

For those that die on them rides R.I.P For your families may god watch over your loves spirits Let all lean something for this.

At-- 11: 50 -- The Haunted Castle at Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey.... I only went through that once and had a bad feeling about it and not long after that's when the fire took so many lives. The park blamed it on teenagers useing a lighter to see but I don't belive that, I went through it and could see. When I worked at Great Adventure in Jackson a few years latter in security and on stage and back stage stuff where the Haunted Castle was they now had bumper cars and at night sometimes they would go on their own. Ok, maybe an electric glitch right? It really would happen on the OFF SEASON ....when NO POWER ...was hooked to that ride. What is there now I don't know cause I don't live in N.J. now. I hope they all have found peace.

Huh. This morning I was just reading an article about roller coaster accidents

Ok but the way he pronounced alton towers made me laugh. Also you can only fit four people in each train on the smiler so there were only 3 or four in the front :)

This is absolutely one of the best channels on KZfaq. Congrats to everyone involved.👍🏾👍🏾

I remember when saw in the news that one roller coaster broke and killed one girl. She went very high in the air and then came crushing down. It happened more than 8 yrs ago but the place never recovered, every time I went there after the incident, the park gave me a weird and sad vibe, it was terrifying.

When I was little I went on a wooden coaster with my family and instead of the over the shoulder restraints they have now, they had a single lap bar that the occupants of each seat shared. I was quite small for my age (~40 lbs) and the operator of the ride stupidly paired me up with my dad so the lap bar came nowhere near holding me in the seat. I was old enough to know right away this was really bad. So I grabbed on the upper bar as hard as I could (this bar wasn't a restraint, it was in front of you for something to hold on to to stabilise your upper body if you needed it). On the first drop, my lower half lifted out of the seat and over my head. If I didn't have a death grip on that bar I would have 100% fallen out (I basically did fall out but because of my grip I was still attached to the car). At the bottom of the drop, I slammed back drown into the seat which hurt a lot. My dad didn't see this happen and was just laughing because all he saw was that I was freaked out from a ride that I insisted on going on. Then the second drop came and this time my dad saw me start to lift out of the seat this time and managed to grab me when I was about halfway out and pull me back into the seat and basically sat on me for the rest of the ride to keep me pinned to the seat. Believe it or not I still love roller coasters and other amusement park rides and will even go on a wooden coaster (though they are definitely NOT my first choice).

Narrator mentions Verrukt Cod Zombies fans-“Hey I’ve seen this before!”

I want to suggest a topic: What Happens when a Searching Party goes missing? Of course, the regulations for those teams vary from country and state.

I love when they put decimal points in death rates, I know it's just the average but still I laugh Everytime someone's half dies😂

I love how he said Altan towers instead of Alton and the depiction of the ride had no inversions

The refresh of the videos was definitely worth it

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

Crazy timing. The same day you posted this, a man in Utah died as a result of falling from the Skyride at the Lagoon amusement park. It's not a rollercoaster per se, as it is more like a chairlift that brings people from one part of the park to another. Still, falling 50 feet and dying from the resulting injuries is not what most people have in mind when going to an amusement park.

This should be a real thing for criminals as a death sentence. *_I sentence you to roller coaster_*

As someone who has been on more than 500 unique coasts in 11 countries, don't let this video scare you. Accidents at major theme parks are incredibly rare and getting rarer as safety standards continue to rise. (And most rides in this video are not roller coasters). And while I normally love this channel, the Battersea accident was written completely wrong. The lift cable snapped and the train rolled backwards down the lift and through the station, where the operator tried slowing the train with the manual brake system (the coaster was old and didn't have more modern safety features). It didn't derail until after passing through the station and taking a curve too fast, and backwards.

Thank you Infographics Show for my recurring nightmare:)

The Alton Towers disaster! I remember hearing about this all in the news. (Btw the way, "Alton" is pronounced "Oll-ton", but our pronunciations are odd -- don't ask how we pronounce "Frome").

2:52 I didn't know Ed liked roller coasters.

As someone who lives in the UK, I remember the first story very well. I've not been on a rollercoaster for 10 years, and that story partly added to the reason.

Crazy this was uploaded right after the Top Thrill Dragster incident.

Oh dam, I remember that last one… It was all over the news here in the US a while back, definitely a big reason for amusement park safety requirements these days.

Just like driving on a freeway or taking off in a plane, I seem to always think about a Final Destination movie when I think about roller coasters

(About the river-rapids one in Australia) I remember waking up 5 years ago and listening to the news to find out a ride had carked it and a couple people died.

I almost fell of a coaster at six flags because my seat belt came undone. I had to lock my arms around the bars it was terrifying and I was like 9

A channel fully for weird or interesting deaths/Survival stories is a good idea. Mister ballen cornered that market tbf but still space. In the perfect world you guys would work together and give him some of your animation work in return for something fair. But i doubt that could ever hap[pen.

Another way: be born in Afghanistan I hope my fellow humans are safe humanity has really stooped below the meter.

I live in Kansas City and when that boy got decapitated by the water slide, that was the talk of the city for a long time.

This was great to watch before bed thanks

imagine your going on a ride where you go upside down and you cant buckle and the guy doesnt go to check on you and you are just like "oh no"

Infographics, please state the safety precautions because you make coasters sound like you're going to die on any coaster. This stuff happens, but parks try their best to maintain rides, especially in bigger parks and more developed countries. Rides have to be tested EXTENSIVELY for them to be signed off by manufacturers that make the rides. Listen to what the park says. Don't ignore what they say, because it could end badly. Also waterslided can safely go at 70mph, but it's what you do with that speed that matters.

'the ride was in full flight and then she was in full flight, just not in the direction the other passengers were going'....real comforting...

Driving kills over 1500 per year so driving there is actually more dangerous than the rollercoaster

My grandmother never had a problem with us riding roller coasters or other amusement park rides except for the swings. She and a sister told the story of when they went to a fair in rural Texas in the late 1920s. A chain broke and flung a person into a booth where they were decapitated. I always hoped it was untrue.

Some metal roller coaster part fell off a coaster at Cedar point a few days ago and hit a lady in the head.🎢🎢🎢

"The ride was in full flight when she went into full flight." I'm laughing so hard at this

I love the offscreen explosion of the roller-coaster carts...

I remember my sister broke her jaw when a small bird hit her in the face she still has problems with it to this this day (this was about 20 years ago) I can’t imagine dying on a ride or seeing that happen to someone

I was supposed to go to the water park that the little boy died at in the last story that next day. I was so excited because I had never been. And then that same day the incident happened my family and I heard about it on the news and we all just fell silent. It was so chilling and I felt so sad for the little boy but very lucky that I had not gone a day earlier and saw any of that happen or was him for that matter.

The last operating amusement park in West Virginia, Camden Park, is a short car ride from my house. Since it has been open since 1903 and has some of the smaller original attractions, there have been deaths and severe injuries. One of the rides, called the Spider, was permanently closed after one of the arms snapped while in operation. One man died while two others were critically injured. In another incident, the bumper cars burst into flame after a vent became electrified and blew sparks into a nylon curtain. No one died, but several were treated for smoke inhalation. It's become a sort of gallows joke around here that if Camden Park gets rid of it, there's no saving the thing.

Brings back Roller Coaster Tycoon memories

I watch videos like this so much i know most of these

How can there be 4.5 ride deaths, someone only died half way? 🤣🤚

As a Kansas City native I do remember the water slide accident and it was horrible I prayed for the kids brother who was with him when it happened

Ah Infographics, always there to brighten my day... Im never leaving my house again

Someone recently fell 50 feet off of a ride. Yeah, he died.

As a kid I was always too chicken to ride big rides and roller coasters ETC. And honestly, I'm not upset by that. The thrill you get from a roller coaster can be achieved by simply passing a car in the oncoming lane. lol Yeah I'll just pass on rides.

Yay new video :D

This is either the best timed or worst timed videos I've ever seen

The worst way to die for me would be drowning… just thinking about it makes me shiver!!!

bruh the sidney ride is literally the love thing with pearl and spongebob from that one episode. patrick messes with the electricity and it caused a fire in the tunnel of glove. is that not the same story? 😅

The narration of the first deaths is very well written.

The water raft incident at Adventureland in Iowa still gets me and my family to this day

Just an FYI, it's pronounced OLTON not ALTON Towers. Signed: Someone who not only lives in the UK but has been to the theme park.

“4 and a half deaths”- statistics make things weird, how do you half die

can you guys do more videos on like ancient greece/rome? like the fire that burnt the library of alexandria or something plz

HAHHAHAHAH ELTON TOWERS. THIS IS UN REAL THE WAY THEY TALK ABOUT THE SMILER 😂😂

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Just wanted to let everyone know that rollercoasters are completely safe! Any accident that happens on them is always the fault of the guest or operator. And accidents are extremely rare anyways. You have a 1 in 750 million chance of dying on a coaster

Sssstooopp scaring me ... but yea I always trip on those tower drop rides

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oh no… how he pronounced alton towers😂😂😭

It's good that I live in India😶😶😶 This is horrifying There aren't much rollercoasters here so... No danger I guess

10:12 - that better not be pizza below the Eiffel tower... infographics...

7:39 i live just 500 to 700 meters away from that lake and when this incident happened i even heard that ride hitting the ground in my home. That was horrible the safety measurement were to blame for that. After that accident i decided to never sit in any of the amusement park's rides.

Nice vide

@ 10:20 they said often make it look like a caterpillar but they show a picture of a owl .🤔😂

This is why I scream my head off on coasters and rides like it's my last day on earth.🤷🏾‍♀️

I built a ferris wheel once and took it to a carnival. It had one small problem. The seats didnt swivel. People were falling out when their seat neared the top. This was bad for business. I had to think fast. So I quickly sketched up a sign. "Ride the 100 ft tall "TUMBLE DRY", Only $2 a ride. Land in a seat on your way down and your 2nd ride is FREE!"

My sister was on a Zero Gravity machine when it snapped and couldn’t stop or go slower. She and her friends were tripping and they were spinning out of control and they all thought they were going to die

I know it's terrible, but the people flying off the track at 2:22 was humorous.

I love hearing the "..........blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.........."' as the illustrations speak lololololol 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽🔥🔥🔥

Just a couple days ago a drunk guy fell off the Skyride at Lagoon in Utah. He died this morning. Interesting timing for a video.