42-year-old Carla Knight had just come off the Maelstrom ride at the park when she collapsed and died at the scene. The Drayton Manor park saw another tragedy occur on a water ride just a few years before in 2012 when a mother suffered a cardiac arrest at the end of one of the rides. Tragically, one of Jannath’s school friends told the press that she nearly missed the opportunity to go on the field trip and that the Splash Canyon ride was the last one she had planned to go on before going home. She was momentarily sitting up to adjust herself when she fell out. Jannath was on the tall Splash Canyon water ride at the park when the boat she was sitting in hit a rock and threw her out and into the water. 11-year-old Evha Jannath was visiting the theme park as part of a school treat when things took a horrific turn. In early May of this year, a young girl died tragically after falling from the Splash Canyon water ride at Drayton Manor theme park in the UK. If he had fallen at a further angle, he could have very well been falling to his death. The boy had clearly gathered some speed while approaching the tunnel opening because he launches into the air without even touching the sides.
The kid was riding a slip n slide ride (you can say that again!) when the tunnel of the ride opens up just before the end. The now viral footage of the fall was shot in 2008 at Seven Peaks water park in Utah and it’s enough to make anyone’s stomach lurch a little while watching it. The kid appeared to fall straight down in mid-air rather than slide inside the tube. Unfortunately, this poor dude did not have a soft and safe landing like our favourite pixelated plumber - far from it. This looked less like a water slide and more like the kind of vertical tube that Mario teleports through.
In a video clip that has now gone viral, one poor boy can be seen falling down a water ride that is at such a vertical angle, he pretty much drops in mid air.
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This wasn’t so much a water slide as a free fall experience. Here are some of the worst water park disasters ever. If you had plans to visit a water park this summer, you might think twice after reading some of these horror stories.
What began as fun days out ended with rides collapsing from underneath people, rides being struck by lightning, and some people falling to their deaths from atop the tallest water slides. Despite increasing commitments to safety measures at amusement parks, horrific accidents like this keep happening and it’s making us feel less and less confident about ever setting foot in one again.įrom freak accidents to those caused by poorly maintained rides, each of these water park disasters are disturbing in their own way and most of them could have easily been avoided. We trust theme parks to always put our safety first, but as this haunting list proves, nothing is ever guaranteed.Īn alarming number of accidents at water parks and theme parks around the world have happened in the last few years alone, the latest major accident happening as recently as early May of this year at the UK’s Drayton Manor theme park. Sadly, some water parks have also been the scene of unspeakable tragedy for some families, turning their loved one’s best day into every parent’s worst nightmare.
For many kids (and some big kids) this is the whole reason they look forward to summer - to ride the flume logs and epic water slides. Water parks are meant to be a fun and exciting place for families.
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