Plastic piece falls off Dodonpa train, slightly injures rider

A small plastic cover slid off the Dodonpa train and hit a rider in the knee, only slightly injuring him. Not much of a story to it.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070516a7.html

Not to sound crass maybe they'll change the name of the coaster to DodonpOUCH!

Its a crisis.

Bolliger/Mabillard for President in '08 NOT Dinn/Summers

Please tell me you're joking.

Oh, the Humanity!

I had a piece of foam cover fall off the shoulder rest of GL's Double Loop and hit my thigh. I knew i should've limped off the ride.
;)

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-Mark

A plastic piece... that eliminates the possibility of it being an axle. I wonder if that park checks theirs? ;)

"Since that accident, amusement parks nationwide have been conducting checks on their roller coasters."

Oh wow! that is one misleading quote from the article.

-Eric: Major Parks: SFNE(homepark), SFA,SFGADV,CP,BGE,BGA,Kennywood,and Sea World: Track record 65 different coasters ridden #1 is Millennium Force #2 is El Toro and than there are all the others