Big Dipper crash at Blackpool Pleasure Beach

[Fehm]

"Here at blackpool pleasure beach we maintain our rides fully atleast one time every century"

Was that your own little joke or was that on a site? :p

[Jordy]

Is this the Grand National ride, I'm a bit confused

[jackass]

Is this the Grand National ride, I'm a bit confused

No... this is the Big Dipper, hence 'Big Dipper'.

[Disaronno]

Tbh it getting stuck on the track could have been anything, dead bird, anything and like most riders there are more than one car on the track at any one time so ye, some people got hurt but no big deal really.
I remember going to thorpe park and people being stuck on collossus for almost 7 hours, semi-upside down and that didnt get in the news or anything.

Collossus cant get stuck upside down or even semi, because it's tracks near the bits that go upside down are free falling and cannot become stuck.

A dead bird would just get chopped up under the weight of the entire thing.....

No rollercoasters can be stuck upside down (to my knowledge) because they are travelling so fast because of the first drop that they are free falling.

[jackass]

Collossus cant get stuck upside down or even semi, because it's tracks near the bits that go upside down are free falling and cannot become stuck.

A dead bird would just get chopped up under the weight of the entire thing.....

No rollercoasters can be stuck upside down (to my knowledge) because they are travelling so fast because of the first drop that they are free falling.

Agreed with every statement there.

On G-Force you can get stuck upside down though due to the fact that the chain lift is on the 'loop'.

[Black_Apalachi]

Lol I never go on rides. Some people I knew back at primary school once got stuck upside down on Excalibur at Camelot (the big sword which just goes up in the air in a full circle, not a roller-coaster obv) lmao .

[-:Undertaker:-]

I was going to go to Blackpool for the day with mates other day aswell, lucky we didnt. I don't trust any of them fully in this country anyway, especially not the Southport Pleasure Beach which is run by gypsies now.

[Black_Apalachi]

I was going to go to Blackpool for the day with mates other day aswell, lucky we didnt. I don't trust any of them fully in this country anyway, especially not the Southport Pleasure Beach which is run by gypsies now.

Is it lol? I went there once and it was dead. :/

[Pazza]

The reason it stopped was because one of the wheels became loose, so to avoid further problems the carriage was stopped immediately. Although the carriage hadn't passed the sensor, the ride operator went off of time instead of the sensory readings, and set the next carriage unbeknownst that the other carriage had stopped.

[Pyroka]

might be cuz it closed downnnn? southport that is.