Employee dead at Magic Kingdom

Disney World Employee Dead In Magic Kingdom Monorail Crash

Sunday July 5, 2009
CityNews.ca Staff

An employee at Walt Disney World is dead after two monorail trains collided at the Magic Kingdom.
The crash happened around 2am (7am GMT) on Sunday, killing the operator of one of the vehicles. No guests were seriously injured.
The public affairs department offered condolences to the victim's family. The victim has not been identified.
Train service at the Orlando theme park has been shut down.
According to a local television station, CFNews 13, it was the first fatal accident in the monorail system's nearly 38-year history.


Just thought i'd let you know

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wow good find.

Saw this early this morning but figured nobody would care here.. haha.
Some extra info I posted on other sites, nontheless:

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Originally Posted by omgMatt

This is the first fatal accident the monorail has had in 38 years of it running.

Just read someone was there 30 mins after it happened. All blocked off, security all over. Monorail is now out of service until they figure out what caused it. I have a couple of friends who work as Disney security, lots to hear about. TTC will possibly be closed today if they can't clear the tracks in time - will cause problems if it closes..

http://image.examiner.com/images/blo...ge/mono(4).jpg http://image.examiner.com/images/blo...mage/mono2.jpg

and a video..
http://www.clickorlando.com/video/19956043/index.html

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Originally Posted by omgMatt

Saw this early this morning but figured nobody would care here.. haha.
Some extra info I posted on other sites, nontheless:

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My God they're useless. Who's clever idea was it to shout at the train "Are you OK?" then not give a hoot when there's no answer? Surely someone has the guts or "brains" to pull open the door to get to the driver? No-one gave it a try :/

A sad loss to the world,


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undoubtfully the 'King of Monorail Trains'

What was it doing at 2am? And do they not go on separate tracks each way?

one track i think but one way

Aha that's weird. I was randomly looking up stuff about Disneyland Florida deaths and I found none, then my dad was constantly saying today "oh usually by this time we're in disney". wthhhhhh

That would be scary as hell looks nasty. Yeah I thought they went on different tracks because I've passed ones before.

It crashed into the back of another I think.

R.I.P, wow

Thats really sad.. .:( THe family must be devastated, such a loss really

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Originally Posted by Yoshimitsui

What was it doing at 2am? And do they not go on separate tracks each way?

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It was 4th July and thats a big thing in the states, so they were having one of those late nights at Magic Kingdom like they do for Halloween, Christmas and New Years Eve/Day