Sky ride accident at Indiana Beach

I was riding the sky lift tonight at IB when it had been shut down for about 15 minutes. After they started the ride again I passed a girl who was crying, riding alone and the lapbar on the other side was open. The person who was riding with her fell from the ride. I was wondering if anyone else was aware of this yet or knew how serious the fall was.

Well, that's not good...I guess we'll have to wait for the story on this one.

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-Eric
Ride "The Lost Coaster of Superstition" @ Indiana Beach!

wow

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Oh dear, now they will probally be forced to cage the things in or something. I hope the person who fell is alright though.

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I know this would be extreme, but I hope they don't dismantel it...it's one of my favorite rides at IB. I'm interested to hear the full story on this though, because I can't see how this person would fall without doing things they weren't suppose to. But then again, I also thought that IB's skyride never seemed like the safest.

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-Eric
Ride "The Lost Coaster of Superstition" @ Indiana Beach!

*** This post was edited by Glitch01 on 6/17/2002. ***

how high up is IB's skyride?
i hope whoever fell is all right...

It's pretty high in the middle part of the ride..actually, it's pretty high throughout the whole circuit. Here's a picture from 1999: http://www.angelfire.com/mac/coasters/archives/ib99/srview2.jpg

Copy and paste link into your browser if you experience problems.

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-Eric
Ride "The Lost Coaster of Superstition" @ Indiana Beach!

I never felt tottally safe on it either. I wonder how often they replace the cable? My Fiance got hurt on it a while back. She was with her family and her little girl was 3. When my fiance went to put her child on the ride and then her self hop on, the ride op wouldn't stop the ride. The car dragged Julia all the way to the very edge of the platform and she got all kinds of splinters. She still has a lot of problems with her knee as it almost got broke from it being dragged. Her husband at the time yelled at the op to stop the ride and she was just frozen in shock, so Julia's husband ran over and hit the stop button. Then when Julia requested a wheel chair they wanted to charge her a deposit to use the wheel chair. I know this is true because the 3 kids all told me the same thing.

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i can't seem to get the picture. is te sky ride bucket style or ski lift style?

Sky lift style.

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When I made my first trip to the Beach last Wednesday I didn't mind the bars on the Skyride. I did see a large man that couldn't put the bar down though and several small children riding alone by themselves. I just figured people had been to the park before and knew what to do.

All the bars are there for is as a safety precaution. I love the ride, for the great views you get of the park, but sometimes what really frightens me is when you get some idiot on the ride that thinks its really funny to bounce their car up and down. I was in Tennesee on my honey moon 19 years ago and saw this grown adult bouncing his car as we passed him on one of the towers, the cable where his car was attached to slid off the pulley system on the tower, and low and behold the whole damn ride came to an abrupt stop.

The two little kids in the car infront of him were scared to death, hanging on to the inside of their car. Needless to say two hours later once we were back on the ground we saw the cops walk the guy out of the park in handcuffs.

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-Eric
Indiana Beach Online

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Wow that is scary, I was just there yesterday... I would think that if something really bad happened that it would be all over the news because Indiana Beach started getting packed last night since they had $0.25 rides after 6pm...

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Webmaster: You have a responsibility to remove dangerous irresponsible posts such as this. The author has made up a story that is patently false and repondents are actually believing it to be true. Why they picked on Indiana Beach is a mystery since it is a wonderful family owned park favored by many enthusiasts. But this type of lie can hurt them. You must remove this whole thread immediately.

IF someone did fall from a sky ride at any park, you would assume that it would be all over the news. We all know how the press likes to jump on park accidents... even to the point of sensationalizing them (i.e. people stuck on a coaster is not an ACCIDENT, though the press makes it sound like it is a terrible tragedy).

When I first read this post, something didn't quite sound right. However, I am still giving Wabash Cannonball the benifit of the doubt and am not (yet) accusing him of a fabrication. While what he experienced and saw may have been accurate (a stopped sky ride and passing a girl riding alone and crying), I have the feeling that the explanation was quite different (could she have been crying because she was scared after being stuck on a skyride for 15 minutes by herself?).

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I just went and checked a bunch of online area newspapers that have had IB articles in the past and I haven't seen one story about this yet.

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-Eric
http://www.indianabeach.8k.com/

How about a link to a media source for proof?

Funny--if this had really happened, I doubt the front page news on the Lafayette Journal and Courier would be about Miss Indiana. It doesn't show up on WLFI (the local CBS affiliate) either.

-CoastaPlaya

(falsehood slaya)

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*** This post was edited by CoastaPlaya on 6/17/2002. ***

Maybe she was just scared. But I doubt that Wabash made it up. I know him personally. He is at IB all the time. he loves IB. Why in the heck would he lie? And who is Big Drop? Is he just making noise? Hmmm.. the questions I have, the answers I would like to hear and see. Wabash, please don't be pulling our chains here. I could see the child scared because the ride stopped, but what kind of sick parent would put their child ( i presume the child is young?) on the sky ride by herself? How does the parent or guardian know the child is mature enough to handle thsi ride on her own will?

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He didn't say how young the "girl" was... we can't assume she was a young child. Now I have never been to IB, but I will say this...

I do not like heights, but I will ride just about anything (including skyrides even though I do not like them... afraid of heights... especially heights where all that is keeping you from plummeting to the ground is a cable). My wife and I rode the sky ride at Morey's Piers and I can tell you this... when we were at the highest point, you would have needed a crow bar to get my hands off of the bar. Had that thing stopped for 15 minutes... and we would have been left swaying in the breeze... I would not have been crying, but I can tell you that I certainly would have been more than a little afraid.

The girl did not have to be a little girl to be crying... a slight uneasiness of heights could easily have turned into out right fear and panic when that skyride stopped for an extended amount of time.

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